ICAM Education
For more than 25 years, the ICAM fellowship has trained automotive engineers in anatomy, medical science, and injury care, providing them with actionable insights to improve vehicle design and develop safer vehicles. These collaborations clearly demonstrate the potential for expanded cross-training of engineers in the medical sciences.
Our mission is to foster synergistic research between medical specialties, and biomedical and automotive engineering efforts that translate quickly into new technologies, medical treatments, education, and policies that prevent injuries and improve care.
When designing and manufacturing automobiles, lead-time is essential. ICAM has found that the best way to have medical and engineering specialists learn from each other and work together is to analyze current field data in a fellowship program.
ICAM offers fellowships to senior safety engineers and designers that have an interest collaboration and continuous education. Fellows are instructed in the basics of trauma, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and radiology as it relates to designing systems to prevent motor vehicle crash injury. Injury fellows also gain practical experience in crash investigation and bioengineering. Additionally, ICAM invites research and industry experts to attend the crash injury case reviews as well as hold private seminars with the fellows on topics ranging from finite element analysis modeling to lower extremity injuries.
The Injury Fellowship is for 12 months. There are several levels of sponsorships for companies, dependent upon the number of fellows enrolled per organization.
Fellowship teams participate in a research analysis project which will ideally address an existing opportunity for improvement. These projects are conceived by the fellows, and will be presented to the sponsoring organization at a scheduled on-site visit.
Previous fellows have developed significant and innovative intellectual property for their organizations.
Our development of a Congressional funded EMS training program for advanced automatic crash notification (AACN) demonstrates the wide-based public support for cross-disciplinary education. Furthermore, tremendous advances in educational technologies and multimedia enable widespread dissemination for maximal educational impact. Our crashedu.org website is just one example of the power of this cross-disciplinary education in the understanding of automotive medicine.
