Air Medical Safety and Applied Research Collaborative
AMSARC (pronounced am-sark) is a working group of providers and academics with a passion for applied research on safety in the air medical transport industry.
Why it exists
AMSARC exists to take the questions crews and program leaders actually have, turn them into studies, and get the answers back to the people who fly.
Crews, communication specialists, mechanics, and program leaders raise the questions they face on shift and at the base.
Research members shape those questions into studies with sound methods and instruments, and review each other's work.
Findings return to the field in a form crews and leaders can use, not only to the journals.
For now it is informal
Where it goes depends on who shows up and what they want to work on.
Membership
Research members
Research members have studied, are studying, or intend to study safety in air medical transport. Academics, clinician-researchers, graduate students, and practitioners with a question and the will to pursue it all qualify.
Affiliates
Affiliates want to stay informed, raise questions for study, or have their organization take part in future research. No research background is needed.
If you have ever had a question at the base that nobody has studied, or a near miss that taught you something the industry should know, this is the place to bring it.
Join
Tell us a little about yourself and which way you would like to take part. Someone from the working group will follow up.
Please do not include patient information, or names and details that would identify a person, aircraft, or program in a specific event. A general description of the question is enough to start.