The AME Course is conducted over four weeks and addresses the clinical aspects and practical implications of transporting patients by air, and the technical aspects of aircraft preparation for AME use. The course covers theory and practical phases for the C-17, C-27 and C-130 and may be run at RAAF Amberley and RAAF Richmond. 

The course covers: 

• Aviation physiology 
• Clinical aspects of AME 
• Organisational aspects of AME 
• AME aircraft operations 
• AME equipment 
• AME missions 
• Patient evacuation.

There are ten summative assessments required for successful completion of the AME course – seven knowledge and three performance assessments.  

The AVMO course is conducted over four and a half weeks and prepares ADF Medical Officers to work as Aviation Medical Officers (AVMO). ADF AVMO are required to assess and manage the health of ADF aircrew and other aviation personnel, provide advice to ADF commanders on aviation medicine and how this impacts military capability, and provide medical support to ADF flying operations. The course is provided to military, civilian and international students. In addition to meeting ADF capability requirements, completion of the AVMO course qualifies the ADF MO as a Designated Aviation Medical Examiner (DAME) in accordance with the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority requirements.

The course covers:

• Introduction to aerospace medicine
• Aerospace physiology and environment
• Clinical aerospace medicine
• Operational aerospace medicine
• Human factors and accident response.

Students on the AVMO course undertake practical training in symptoms of hypoxia, spatial disorientation, water survival and air traffic control tower experience.

EMST is a three-day* intensive course in the management of injury victims in the first 1–2 hours following injury. It aims to train ADF Medical officers in the knowledge and skills to care for personnel in acute, life-threatening emergencies.

The course covers:

• Theory
• Practical management
• Treatment priorities
• Care of severe trauma patients.

The course is conducted by the Royal Australian College of Surgeons using a combination of civilian and ADF instructors (accredited by RACS).

Formative assessments include a pre-course multiple-choice question (MCQ) test and practical assessments during the course. Summative assessments include a summative theory assessment (MCQ) and a practical assessment at the end of the course. 

*The Royal Australian College of Surgeons EMST course is over two days. ADF members complete an additional day of training (combining practical skills and theory) to contextualise EMST to the ADF operational environment.

The HOBC course is conducted over sixteen days and designed to provide the foundation skills and knowledge to command, plan and provide health support functions to operations.

The learning objectives of this course include:

• Explaining the Health Corps foundation knowledge and organisational structures within Defence
• Developing an understanding of Health Corps training continuum
• Demonstrating an understanding of clinical governance
• Demonstrating an understanding of medical administration
• Demonstrating command, lead, and manage skills
• Developing an understanding of Joint Health Capability
• Developing an understanding of operational and strategic health.

The MOIC course covers the attributes (skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours) required to understand the command, leadership, and management responsibilities of a military medical officer.

The learning objectives of this course include:

• Describing the role of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (RAAMC) and health service in Defence
• Understanding the military medical officer’s responsibilities for subordinates
• Understanding the military medical officer’s responsibilities for their personal career and professional development.
• Understanding field health care
• Understand Garrison Health care
• Providing advice to Commanders
• Identifying common musculoskeletal conditions and treatments in Defence
• Managing disease and non-battle casualties
• Understanding specific mechanisms of injury with military medicine
• Managing mental health issues and conditions of military significance
• Understanding ethical dimensions of health care in the military environment
• Tactical Combat Casualty Care - Medical Personnel.

Training will occur via off-the-job training primarily through instructor-led delivery using a method or combination of methods, such as presentations, lectures, forums, and group discussions.

The MOUM course is conducted over ten days and provides the ADF MO with an understanding of the range of potential medical problems faced by divers. Considerable emphasis is placed on the diving medical and the contraindications to diving, together with the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of the more common diving-related illnesses. Although designed to meet ADF capability requirements, it also qualifies the ADF MO to undertake dive medical examinations for recreation and commercial purposes. 

The course covers:

• How the laws of physics apply to diving 
• How the physical properties of diving affect human physiology 
• Diving equipment 
• Barotrauma, its prevention and treatment 
• Problems associated with the use of air, oxygen, heliox and nitrox breathing gases 
• Decompression illness, its pathophysiology, clinical presentation and management 
• How to perform a recreational and occupational diving medical examination 
• Requirements of a therapeutic recompression chamber and its life support systems 
• Deep diving 
• Hypothermia and its clinical management 
• Diving tables and dive computers 
• Dangerous marine animals and appropriate clinical management 
• Diving accidents and how to prevent them.

During the course students are also introduced to clinical hyperbaric medicine and submarine medicine. 

The course also provides an update on current resuscitation

The OPHLTSPT course provides the knowledge and skills health personnel require to deploy an operational health support facility. The course is conducted over two weeks at RAAF Amberley.

The course covers:

• Operational Health Support
• Instruction on the various levels of health support available
• Personal and collective preparation for deployment
• Logistics and administrative considerations
• Establishing and running a deployed health facility.

The RWAME course is a five-day theory/practical training series. The course covers aviation medicine general principles, assessment of patients in context of principles of aviation medicine, retrieval team management, procedures around and inside aircraft, communication before/during/after missions.

The learning objectives of this course include:

• Conducting RWAME operations
• Preparing for a RWAME
• Communicating effectively during a RWAME
• Loading, securing and unloading a casualty on a RW aircraft
• Providing casualty care during a RWAME
• Completing post mission activities following a RWAME.