Air Medical Safety and Applied Research Collaborative
AMSARC (pronounced am-sark) brings researchers, operators, and providers together to produce safety research that can be applied in air medical transport. Questions come from the field, studies are built with sound methods, and findings return to the programs and crews who can use them.
Purpose
Air medical safety improves when the people who fly, the people who run programs, and the people who study the industry work on the same questions. AMSARC identifies the questions that matter in operations, develops them into studies with sound methods, and returns the findings in a form programs can act on.
Crews, communication specialists, maintenance technicians, and program leaders identify the safety questions they encounter in daily operations.
Researchers design studies around those questions, select or build appropriate instruments, and review one another's methods.
Results are reported to crews and leaders in a form they can apply, in addition to publication in peer-reviewed journals.
An informal working group
AMSARC's direction will be set by its members and the questions they choose to pursue.
Membership
Researchers
This track is for anyone who has studied, is studying, or intends to study safety in air medical transport. That includes academics, clinician-researchers, graduate students, and practitioners pursuing a question of their own. A formal research appointment is not required.
Providers and operators
Flight crews, communication specialists, maintenance technicians, and program and base leaders who want to follow the work, submit questions for study, or make their organization available for future research. No research background is required.
A research question can also be submitted without joining, with or without your name.
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The Air Medical Learning Network collects good catches, close calls, lessons learned, and effective practices from air medical crews and programs. Each submission is reviewed and de-identified before it is published as a searchable learning brief. Submissions may be made with or without your name.
AMSARC exists to receive the questions that have not been studied and the lessons that have not been shared.
Join
Tell us your name, role, and how you would like to take part. A member of the working group will respond by email.
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.