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Aviation Psychology & Medicine
Scope:
Psychological factors play a role in determining pilot
behavior and responses in the cockpit. Cognitive
processes are involved in decision-making, perception,
and attention. The purpose of this pathfinder is to
serve as a guideline for student research. It is not
intended as a comprehensive listing of all the
resources available in the library on a specific
topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types
of materials available. Some of the topics covered in
this pathfinder include circadian rhythms and pilot
fatigue, stress, substance abuse, fear of flying, as
well as other medical issues that affect pilot
performance.
Some
representative titles from the circulating collection
located upstairs in the library:
The
following is a list of articles, arranged by topic,
from Aviation, Space & Environmental Medicine,
unless otherwise indicated.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Aviation & Aerospace Medicine
http://aeromedical.org/
| Links to publications and online articles, associations, calendar of aviation medical events, an aviation medicine bibliography and search engine, and home to the AEROMED-LIST listserv. The site is maintained by Dr. Dougal Watson. |
Aviation Medical Examiner Directory
http://ame.cami.jccbi.gov/
MEDLINE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database containing citations and author abstracts from over 3800 biomedical journals. The subject headings assigned to MEDLINE citations are from a controlled vocabulary. For citations involving aviation medicine, the actual term is "aerospace medicine."
From the National Library of Medicine's home page, select Free MEDLINE. Two Web-based products, Internet Grateful Med and PubMed provide the access to the database citations. Both products have links to online help: PubMed's "Help" and Grateful Med's "New User's Survival guide."
In a basic PubMed search it is not required to link terms with the word "and" because the program automatically will do so. For example:
| TOPIC |
SEARCH USING |
| jet lag |
aerospace medicine jet lag |
| pilot fatigue |
aerospace medicine pilot fatigue |
NOTE: If you wish for the Baddour Library to request a title by interlibrary loan, please allow at least 2-3 weeks for delivery.
PUB MED CENTRAL OPEN ACCESS
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Pub Med Central Open Access provides free and
unrestricted access to electronic literature in the field of biomedical and life
sciences. This site is developed and managed by the National Center for
Biotechnology Information and the National Library of Medicine.
Updated
11/13/2007
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