You don't have to be in tip-top condition to be a volunteer at a training session for medical officers at the Royal Flying Doctor Service Dubbo Base next month.
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The medical officers are set to learn how to use a new transportable ultrasound machine, handy when responding to emergencies in the outback.
Two sonographers from the Australian Institute of Ultrasound will be instructing the medical officers at the three-day training session from March 4.
About 30 volunteers are needed for one-hour scans of the abdomen, chest and heart.
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Dr Peter Brendt, emergency services team leader at the base, said volunteers could be of "all genders, age groups and different body types".
“We would like to scan healthy volunteers to see what normal looks like, and we are looking for volunteers with ascites, pericardial effusion, abdominal aneurysm and a bad heart function, to help us to recognise these conditions with the new ultrasound system," he said.
To volunteer call Debbie Ervine on 6841 2560 or send an email to Debbie.Ervine@rfdsse.org.au .
