Medical
Keeps the crew healthy: medicine, human factors and safety.
Frontier work hiring now: Bring care where hospitals aren't: remote mine-site and offshore medicine, telehealth, and the clinicians who build medical devices.
On Earth
On Earth this covers medicine, nursing, EMS, occupational health and human factors engineering.
In space
Long missions mean radiation, bone loss and months without evacuation. NASA's Human Research Program studies these risks, and crews need people trained to treat problems on site.
Source: NASA Human Research Program
Roles on our board now
Real titles from current openings that lead toward Medical work. 4 internship · 14 entry · 24 experienced
- Family Medicine Physician 4 days in clinic (6 open)
- Systems Engineer
- Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Sign-On Bonus Available
- Primary Care Physician - Sign-On Bonus Available
- Family Medicine Physician - Sign-on Bonus Available
- Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Totem Lake - Sign-On Bonus Available
- Per Diem Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner or Physician Associate/Physician Assistant
- Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant 4 days in clinic
Core skills
- Clinical or EMT training
- Human factors
- Occupational safety
- Calm decisions under pressure
- Clear documentation
Tools you'll see
- Medical devices and monitors
- Incident reporting systems
- Basic statistics
- Ergonomics assessment tools
Earth backgrounds that transfer
- Nurses and paramedics
- Military medics
- Remote-site and offshore medics
- Physical therapists
- Safety officers
Starting out
Get an EMT certification early. Human factors and biomedical engineering programs lead to the engineering side.
Changing careers
Remote-site medicine and safety work map closely. Space companies hire for human factors, safety and crew health roles.
Academy track
The Medical Track: First Response, Industrial Medicine and Space Health track is open: 4 modules and a final test, free for crew members.
Medical ranks
Ranks reflect Mars Mining Academy progress. They are not job titles and do not mean employment. Everyone starts at Medic 1 the moment they join and pick Medical. Ranks are worked out from the quizzes you pass, the certificates you earn and the projects you finish. You can't set them yourself.
Medic 1 MM-R1
Join the department. Everyone starts here.
Medic 2 MM-R2
Pass 2 module quizzes in this department's track and fill in your resume basics: name, contact and target role, education and training, professional experience and skills.
Medic 3 MM-R3
Pass every module quiz in this department's track and finish early life, the work-style interview, passions and at least one portfolio item. Lateral transfer opens here.
Nurse MM-R4
Earn the track certificate and finish a solo real-world project, submitted and reviewed. Coming: projects aren't open yet.
Medic Lead MM-R5
Finish a team project with other crew members. Coming: projects aren't open yet.
Medical Officer MM-R6
Lead a team project and pass the capstone. Coming: projects aren't open yet.
Transfers
You serve in one department at a time and start at Medic 1 (R1). Once you reach R3 in your department you can put in for a lateral transfer. You start at R1 in the new department, and every rank you earned before stays on your service record, which shows on your dashboard and your certificate verify page.
Before R3 you stay put. The one exception: if you picked wrong, you can change once in your first 7 days.
You can hold top rank in every department. That takes years, because the higher ranks need real-world projects and team work, not just quizzes.
Is this you?
- You stay steady when someone is hurt
- You think about the person using the machine
- You care about the boring prevention work
If you nodded at two or more, Medical is worth a look. Not sure? Take the quiz.