KAGMAN Isla Community Health Center internist, Mohamed Khalil Salhi, MD, MBA, on Friday completed his aerospace medicine training, and is now the only officially appointed aviation medical examiner or AME in the CNMI.
The training was provided by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Aerospace Medicine in partnership with the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute in Oklahoma City.
The FAA’s aerospace medicine office provides a broad range of medical programs and services for domestic and international aviation communities. The services it offers include aerospace medical education, aerospace medical and human factors research, and medical clearance of air traffic control specialists and other FAA employees who are required to meet medical standards to perform safety-sensitive duties.
Salhi, whose medical specialty is internal medicine, shared the news as soon as he arrived on Saipan Monday.
He said the CNMI hasn’t had an AME for years now.
Now that he has completed the training, he said, “we can now perform medical certifications on all pilots/airmen and other aviation-related positions right in our backyard, and they no longer have to travel to Guam or Hawaii for examinations and certifications.”
Kagman Isla Community Health Center internist Mohamed Khalil Salhi, center, poses for a photo with the pilots of an aircraft during a Federal Aviation Administration aerospace medicine training in Oklahoma City.
