Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Training Section defines, develops and implements training requirements for a comprehensive health care program for space flight. Wyle personnel are responsible for training astronauts, flight surgeons, biomedical engineer flight controllers and other flight control disciplines for operations in health maintenance, environmental health, and countermeasures systems. This training includes hardware familiarization, as well as nominal, malfunction, assembly, and maintenance operations. Wyle employees train crew medical officers for each space flight mission in medical diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, patient assessment, CPR, medication administration, and laceration closure. All of the training provided by Wyle for each space flight mission includes hands-on training with flight-like equipment and flight simulation support.
Onboard training has been introduced with the addition of long-duration missions, previously on the Mir Space Station and now on the International Space Station. Onboard training can be used to review learned skills and to learn new tasks. Most lessons are computer-based multimedia lessons that incorporate video, text, audio, diagrams and photographs. The current computer-based training lessons cover the Crew Health Care System equipment and associated procedures.
Wyle's Systems and Crew Training Section also provides the medical equipment for every Shuttle mission since STS-1. The Shuttle Orbiter Medical System contains the equipment and supplies needed to diagnose and treat many in-flight medical problems. Wyle employees look for ways to improve the kits and also configure them before every Shuttle flight as well as run an inventory of the system after flight. Finally, the group also provides the medication, equipment, and material support for NASA's Flight Medicine Clinic at Star City, Russia. This clinic is staffed by physicians from Wyle’s multilateral support section.