Professional qualifications for Civil Aviation Medical Examiners?

[Carrier]

I would like to know what the abbreviations below stand for, and the names and addresses of the organisations that issue these designations. I have tried a Google search but have not found the answers They must be some sort of rather obscure minor professional memberships to not show up readily on Google. If so, do their members have to earn these designations by meeting required minimum examination and experience standards or do they become members merely by paying application and annual membership fees?

MDCM

CCFP(EM)

D.Av.Med.

Thanks for any info.

[CD]

MDCM = Doctor of Med & Master of Surg/translated from latin
( Medical College of Georgia - Degree Codes (http://www.iris.mcg.edu/fis/codes/Degree.asp) )

CCFP(EM) = Certificant of the College of Family Physicians (Emergency Medicine)
( The College of Family Physicians of Canada (http://www.cfpc.ca/English/cfpc/communications/acronyms/default.asp?s=1) )

D.Av.Med. = Diploma in Aviation Medicine
( King's College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/life_sciences/biomed/physiol/diploma.htm) )

[MLS-12D]

The abbrevations you cite are not obscure.

As CD implies, "MDCM" is simply a fancier way of saying "MD": which as we all know is a four-year undergraduate programme offered by all medical schools.

The CCFP designation is available to general practitioners who have passed the College of Family Physicians of Canada's examination, and satisfied certain residency or equivalent practical experience requirements. Although it's not a particularly impressive medical qualification, someone who has it is certainly more qualified than a mere MD.

A Diploma in Aviation Medicine is rather more impressive. KCL's course is a specialist programme involving a six month residency, and its students generally must have past experience in aviation medicine. A somewhat less rigorous (part-time) D.Av.Med. programme is offered by Otago University, New Zealand (http://www.otago.ac.nz/aviation_medicine/postgrad_diploma_avmed.html). Neither of the diploma programmes should be confused with the basic certificate programmes intended to provide only entry-level training for new aviation medical examiners: see e.g. Otago (http://www.otago.ac.nz/aviation_medicine/postgrad_avmed.html) (two semesters of part-time study, plus a two-day residential course), and Monash, Australia (http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/shortcrs/accam.html) (10 day residential course).

[Carrier]

Thanks for the replies. I have one further request. What does FAsMA stand for and who issues it? Again I did try a Google search but was unable to find anything. Thanks for any help.

[MLS-12D]

Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (http://www.asma.org/).