CALLING ALL PILOT PHYSICIANS. The FAA and your fellow pilots need you to become aviation medical examiners (AMEs). The need for HIMS-certified AMEs is even more critical. The AME community is getting older, and more and more examiners are retiring. The average age of AMEs went from 56 years old in 2003 to 62 in 2020. Some AMEs only do exams on certain days, and others limit the number of exams they will perform each week. All this leads to a shortage of examiners. About 320,000 flight medicals are conducted across all classes annually. Fifty-five percent of AMEs do 50 exams or fewer, but about 10 percent do more than 300 per year. The majority of AMEs are in primary care, but there also are representatives from almost every specialty in the ranks.
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