Next Gen Aerospace Medicine

About NGAM

What is NGAM?

The Next Generation of Aerospace Medicine (NGAM) is a group designed to represent, co-ordinate and engage with UK students and early career professionals with an interest in aerospace medicine in order to promote the understanding of aerospace medicine and its application to all aspects of civilian and military aviation and human spaceflight

Our Aims

1. To raise awareness of the speciality of Aviation and Space Medicine (ASM) and the wide interdisciplinary fields involved in aerospace medicine in the UK.

2. To promote opportunities to learn about and get involved in the field of aerospace medicine. This will be through provision of information about aerospace medicine to members via FAQs, social media, podcasts/blogs and notification of conferences and events.

3. To provide mentoring to students and professionals interested in starting or developing a career in aerospace medicine and to support networking opportunities.

4. To act as a coordination hub for the multiple organisations that are working to raise the profile of aerospace medicine around the UK and to link with equivalent international organisations.

5. To provide topic suggestions for possible research, audit and quality improvement projects by students and young professionals and improve the coordination of such efforts.

6. To encourage and embrace diversity in the field by improving access for under-represented groups.

7. To develop future leaders in aerospace medicine.

WHO IS NGAM FOR?

The target audience for NGAM is students and early career professionals…

  • Undergraduate students
  • Postgraduate students (up to and including PhD)
  • Early post doc researchers
  • Professionals in their first 5-10 years full time in an aerospace medicine related field (or longer if work part time)

…with an interest in aerospace medicine and it’s wide interdisciplinary community including but not limited to:

  • Aviation and/or space medicine
  • Aerospace physiology
  • Life support system specification, design, maintenance and testing
  • Aircraft design (in particular human systems integration)
  • Flight nursing
  • Aviation and/or space physiotherapy
  • Aerospace human factors and human factors engineering
  • Aviation and/or space psychology

Our focus is on providing information and opportunities to those in the United Kingdom but individuals from all nations are welcome to use our resources and get involved where possible.

HOW CAN I JOIN?

We are currently working on establishing a formal membership and committee. For now, to keep up to date with our activities, plans and activities please email NextGenAsM@gmail.com and register your interest. You can also subscribe to this blog (below) and follow us on Twitter @NextGenAsM.

WHAT IS AEROSPACE MEDICINE?

To find out more about Aerospace Medicine, click here

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