FAQ for persons in charge of medical care

If your certificate has expired, you have to reacquire to be able to sail as a master and/or as the person in charge of medical care. You can reacquire your certificate by contacting The Centre of Maritime Health Service, and they will make a competence clarification.

You have to send a mail to cms@dma.dk, which clarifies the below:

• When did the certificate expire?
• What is the reason it has expired?
• What have you done since the last course that can argue that you have maintained your skills?
• Have you participated in any courses that include first aid, e.g. OPITO et al., please send documentation for this?

You will receive an answer within a few days.

​​​The course is mandatory and is, therefore, in general offered free of charge to Danish and EU citizens. 

Additional information is available under regulations on the registration for and cancellation of courses.​​​​​

Our courses are available here: 

• Course calendar Denmark

You may not sail as a master and as the person in charge of medical care, without a valid certificate. Therefore, it is important that you contact CMS to apply for an exemption and a postponement of our course.

You have to send a mail to cms@dma.dk, which clarifies the below:

• When does your certificate expire?
• Please send documentation of your registration for a new course.
• Who else on board has a certificate of ‘person in charge of medical care’?
• Which ship do you have to sign

You will receive an answer within a few days.

Danish Maritime Authority does not require medicine in recreational vessels

We recommend you to contact,”Foreningen til Langtursejladsens Fremme” FTLF, who can advise you on the above.

Danish Maritime Authority does not require the course for sailors in recreational vessels

If we have an opening on our basic courses, you may attend. The course price is DKK 12.250 excl. accommodation and catering.

The course does not provide you with a certificate or medical backup during your trip.

To see if there are any available courses on medical care A- chest in Denmark follow the link: A chest - basic course

We recommend you to contact,”Foreningen til Langtursejladsens Fremme” FTLF, which  provide smaller courses and advise you.

Yes, according to the executive order on courses and certificates for medical staff on ships, be able to insert a venous cannula (drip) and make an intramuscular injection.

If you want to read more about this, click here (Order no. 1116 of 10 October 2014 issued by the Danish Maritime Authority - Annex no. 1 section nb.4)

Attendance is mandatory to all lessons, during the whole course.

Participants must take active part in preparation, discussions and exercises.

All participants must complete all training end points on knowledge, skills and competences.

Injections, IV-needle and eye examination on your fellow officers, is a mandatory part of the course.

We can always guarantee the course being in English.

Please contact CMS via phone number +45 7219 6004 or email cms@dma.dk. When reaching out, please provide us with us with full name, date of birth and address. This way we will be able to send you a new certificate.