The National Office for Traffic Medicine (NOTM) was established in 2011 as a joint initiative by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) to manage the development of medical fitness to drive guidelines and the development of traffic medicine policy in the Republic of Ireland. The Office is now managed by the Centre for Innovative Human Systems, in the School of Psychology in Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
Traffic Medicine embraces all the disciplines, techniques and methods aimed at reducing the harm that traffic crashes can inflict on people. This includes research into patterns of mobility and crash risk among individuals with various medical conditions, assessment of guidelines to maximize safe mobility, promoting a safe system approach to road safety policies, training and educating health professionals and road users; research into the biomechanics and epidemiology of traffic crashes, designing safer roads and traffic control systems, and medical and surgical care provided to crash victims. The best-known element of traffic medicine is the development of evidence-based best practice guidelines to assist practitioners and the public in medical certification and support of fitness to drive. The ethos of the National Traffic Medicine programme is enabling and rehabilitative in trying to ensure that transport mobility is not hampered, or rendered unsafe, by remediable illness or functional loss.
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