ABSTRACT
Objective To provide an effective theoretical basis for future selection and recruitment of military flying cadets.Methods Two hundred military qualified flying cadets by comprehensive assessment samples and 200 military flying cadets by medical fitness samples were interviewed with questionnaires and subjected to a physical examination.The comprehensive assessment samples were classified by symptoms and attributive specialties for statistical analysis.A database was established, cleaned and analyzed by EpiData 3.02, SPSS 16.0 with double checking.Results There was no differ-ence between the comprehensive assessment team and the medical fitness team in age, areas, academic scores and psycho-logical performance.The ten top symptoms according to the comprehensive assessment were abnormal chest circumference, abnormal body mass,iris cyst,abnormal hypersplenotrophy,gallbladder polyps,flat foot,skin disease, intrahepatic calcifica-tion focus, joint disease and reproductive system disease.The attributed specialties included surgery, ultrasonics, ophthal-mology,ENT,radiology, ECG and internal medicine departments.The surgery and ultrasonics department contributed the most from the comprehensive assessment and accounted for 55.52%and 16.37%, respectively.Conclusion The compre-hensive assessment for military flying cadets has an important effect on military aviator selection.Continuous observation should be carried out among the military flying cadets by comprehensive assessment in their aviation training.