Anyone who requests to see your Medical Certificate (e.g., a future employer, the FAA, a Check Airman, etc.) will know you are operating on a Special Issuance Medical Certificate.
Bottom line, 'think twice' about participating in HIMS if you are under the age of 40 and/or you anticipate switching employers.
Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: 1st Class FAA Medical Certificate
DISCRIMINATION & POTENTIAL FOR INVASION OF MEDICAL PRIVACY
We discuss the need for a programmatic overhaul of the Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
one of this airline's 'finest aviators' (aka flight qualified supervisors) known as a 'management pilot,' was put in charge of performing the equivalent of (or something close to) a mental status exam every month on pilots participating in the HIMS program
At this airline, one of these REQUIRED monthly meetings between "management" (quotes used due to the fact that most managers at this airline have little to no actual management training) and the HIMS pilot COULD PUT HIS OR HER MEDICAL CERTIFICATE (read: career) AT JEOPARDY.
Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: Management Pilot or Medical Doctor?
"Medical school, or any kind of medical training for that matter, is obviously overrated..."
example of additional HIMS testing requirements and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations NOT KNOWN to pilots prior to "volunteering" for the FAA's HIMS program
'Special Issuance,' may take several YEARS to accomplish. During this time, there is almost always NO salary, the costs associated with it are NOT reimbursed
It is, quite literally, the FAA's way, "or the highway." In effect, the pilot is beholden to his/her assigned medical providers (about whom she has no choice) and treatment philosophy.
this becomes the pilot's only mode of maintaining sobriety, and the only method about which she can be forthcoming; other modes of maintaining sobriety will elicit suspicion, and delay issuance of the below:
Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: FAA Special Issuance Allowing ONLY Alcohol Breathalyzer and/or Blood Testing for Alcohol and/or Liver Function
Please see http://tinyurl.com/k8n68u7 for an example of a ‘Special Issuance’ letter from the FAA, outlining some of the basic requirements for maintenance of a Medical Certificate once the pilot has been “medically cleared”
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The FAA's Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) program for flight crew members...
Details and various links related to the FAA's HIMS program for airline pilots, et al.
here are probably more myths and misconceptions about A l c o h o l i c sAnonymous, A m e r i c a ’s most sacrosanct institution, than there areabout any other mass organization in our country.
More evidence that the FAA is misguided in their ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach in administering the HIMS (Human Intervention Motivation Study) program…
and stressed that “there is no ‘one-size fits-all’ treatment, … [and] efficacy of the treatments may vary from person to person.”
since drug addictions are very common disorders in both general and psychiatric patient populations, she hoped the session succeeded in “conveying some important messages about the treatment of addiction” that psychiatrists could take home and use in their practices.
“Pharmacotherapies for AUD are highly underutilized. Only 8 percent of adults with AUD are currently being treated for the illness” with these medications, said Steven Batki, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, who pointed out that there is no universal treatment that is as effective in all patients with AUD.
Though there are multiple pharmacotherapy options available to treat substance use disorders, some addiction experts maintain that these medications are often underutilized
these disorders are too seldom treated with pharmacotherapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some addiction experts maintain.
Medical school, or any kind of medical training for that matter, is obviously overrated.
one of this airline's 'finest aviators' (aka flight qualified supervisors) known as a 'management pilot,' was put in charge of performing the equivalent of (or something close to) a mental status exam
in aviation knows of, has heard, or likely has experienced first-hand the quarrelsome relationship that has long existed between labor and management.
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