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| New Group Advances Motor Sport Medicine |
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| The FIA Institute is set to launch a new working group that will seek to improve medical education and training for motor sport medics and marshals. Its remit will be to raise the standards of medical training in motor sport worldwide. |
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The Medical Working Group, which is the brainchild of Formula One medical
delegate Gary Hartstein MD, has finalised its membership and will
have its first meeting before the end of the year. Its first task
will be to create a modular motor sport development course that can
be used to train all trackside personnel from marshals and team members
to paramedics and doctors. Hartstein said: “This is the first time that there will be a course tailored specifically for motor sport and accessible for anyone that needs it.” Currently, most trackside doctors are qualified in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS). Whilst widely regarded as a leading qualification, it is not tailored to dealing with emergencies at trackside. Hartstein, who is an instructor on the ATLS course, said: “It is not the ideal course for motor sport medicine. It’s a hospital based course and the work we do is pre-hospital medicine. It requires a location to put it into the context we are practicing.” As part of the new project, Hartstein plans to create trackside simulations that can provide practice for the whole spectrum of intervention personnel from fire crews and marshals through to medical and extrication personnel. Members have been selected from motor sport markets all over the
world to bring the widest amount of experience to the Working Group.
Confirmed members include Carl Gwinnutt (UK), Alain Chantegret
(France), Ronald Denis (Canada), Dino Altmann (Brazil), Nabeel
al-Ansari (Bahrain) plus a delegate from China who is set to sign
up shortly. |
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Hartstein said: “Having
traveled round the world and spoken to doctors at established circuits
with long motor sport history, like Silverstone and Indianapolis,
as well new circuits, like Bahrain and Turkey, I realised that there
is a very strong demand for furthering educational training in immediate
care in the motor sport environment. “My idea was to get together a bunch of people who were geographically dispersed who all had motor sport experience. And who all were involved with medical safety training outside of motor sport as well. That was approved and so the Working Group has now been formed.” The Working Group is the fifth to be formed by the FIA Institute since it launched officially in October 2004. It will utilise the fact that the Institute is set to name a number of circuits worldwide as Centres for Motor Sport Excellence. Paul Ricard, in southern France, is the first circuit to be chosen and others are set to follow. Hartstein said: “I’d like to take advantage of that and have these circuits equipped to run the courses.” Hartstein has been looking at ways to improve motor sport medicine since he began working full time in Formula One in 1997 as an assistant to previous medical delegate Professor Sid Watkins MD. When Hartstein was appointed chief medical delegate at the beginning of the 2005 season he was determined to continue Watkin’s progressive work. Hartstein said: “I’m pleased to say, as Sid noted throughout his career, as far as you think you’ve gone to make things as good as possible there is always room to keep going. I’m glad to be able to help things move along.” |
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