-: My name is Julio Gomez, I'm a resident physician
at Temple University for the physical medicine
and rehabilitation department.
And I am a flight surgeon for
the New Jersey International Guard.
Within the physical medicine and rehabilitation department
our goal is to bring back individual's function
after a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury,
orthopedic procedures, and countless trauma.
Temple's residency, you're covering multiple hospitals.
You're covering Temple University, Einstein Elkins Park,
which is MossRehab, which is a renowned rehab hospital.
We also cover a MossRehab floor at Einstein
main campus Philadelphia.
So we see a variety of patients.
We see from lung transplants to patients with LVADs,
traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputees.
So as a resident at Temple and at MossRehab
usually working 60 hours a week during your residency,
60 to 80 hours.
Because I'm now in the international guard,
I have to serve one week in a month,
during that week in a month that's when I dedicate myself
and I act as a flight surgeon for the international guard.
We have F-16s stationed at Atlantic City
and my role is to be the aeromedical expert
on medical needs for fighter pilots
and other individuals who are in jumping status,
flying status.
We clear them aeromedically, there are certain illnesses,
medical conditions, that do affect you at altitude,
flight surgeons tend to be the experts
and that's also why we also are
part of the air crew structure.
So we're considered air crew.
So during my previous station I was at
Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida
where I was able to fly in the back seat of fighter jets
along with my patients, who are actually fighter pilots.
We take call from MossRehab, which is a 24 hour call
and at night time we cover all three hospitals.
So let's say you're at Moss, you have a
neurological emergency there, we treat that there
and then 30 minutes later we have another patient
who has an acute issue at Temple, we drive to Temple,
take care of that and drive back to Moss.