How are aviation CRM and resource management in medicine similar?
The tasks and environment in both commercial and military aviation and medicine are surprisingly similar. Both aviation and medical training have lacked in the subjects of leadership skills, workload management, communication skills, assertiveness skills and group/self critique techniques. It took several aircraft accidents to illustrate the need for such training for pilots. Training for commercial airline flight crews have been required by the FAA since the early 1980’s. To date no requirement exists to train medical staff in similar subjects.
