FARMINGTON — Thomas Pulling, MD, a member of the Franklin Memorial Hospital medical staff, has successfully completed the Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Medical Examiners Course to be an authorized Aviation Medical Examiner for second-class and third-class exams.

Aviation medical examiners are trained in evaluating airmen for physical and mental conditions, as well as screening for substance- or alcohol-related conditions. Pulling is one of nine aviation examiners in Maine.

Pulling will provide FAA pilot medical exams one day per month in the hospital’s Occupational Health department on the second floor of the Mt. Blue Health Center on the hospital campus. This is a new service provided by the Occupational Health department.

For more information, call 207-779-2367.