Research (INDUS-ARC)
INDO-US Academic Research Cooperative
INDUS-ARC was established in 2009 at the 5th INDO-US Emergency Medicine Summit held at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Coimbatore India on 30th October 2009.
ARC partnership is both innovative and futuristic working towards uniformity in multi center research to facilitate faster accomplishment of investigations and recruiting higher quality research studies.
Established as a Model operating simultaneously at multiple institutions ARC will provide uniform infrastructure, IRB and QA support to studies at academic health sites across India.
ARC will promote Single Ethics approval process to be acceptable for implementation at multiple sites which are a part of the Cooperative. Studies will thus be easily conducted if common procedures are set up and training programs are instituted to build Uniform Research Capacities at Member Academic Sites which are a part of ARC.
This arrangement provides a competitive advantage to the Industry and Sponsoring Agencies to choose a Platform which has a single Ethics approval process, Standardized Operating Procedures, Improved Quality analysis, and single contracts with multicenter sites governed by lead investigators.
The ARC system will relieve research agencies of the effort to work individually at each institution to repeatedly obtain separate approvals, conduct multiple training programs, institute tailor made study protocols and create multiple administration models for a single study.
By working with ARC a study initiated by one institution will be very easily replicated at partner institutions and be governed via a central command structure forging both validity and reliability for research outcomes. Strict Protocols will be set up to sustain uniformity and success in research.
With India being fast recognized as a Research Hub the growth of ARC is crucial to the future of Funded Multicenter Research at Academic Medical Institutions in India.
Study No. 1 : Surveying Post Graduate Resident Comfort and Familiarity with Direct Laryngoscopy in India
| Principal Investigators | |
| Dr. Veronica Tucci (USF Emergency Medicine) |
Dr. Sagar Galwankar (USF Emergency Medicine) |
Objective: In view of the recent television shows dramatizing medicine, many laypersons now believe all physicians have previously and are presently able to intubate patients in both controlled (e.g., OR) and emergent settings (Emergency Department/Accident & casualty) and that their training in medical school included such procedural skills. We want to test this commonly held belief by studying resident comfort and familiarity with direct laryngoscopy (i.e. Intubation) in India.
Participants : We are looking for Indian residents/physicians-in-training (i.e., post-graduates) in all years of study (PGY-1 through fellow) and from all fields including but not restricted to anesthesia, surgery and general internal medicine to participate in our study.
Design: This study is designed as a survey of 24 questions relating to to take no more than 5-10 minutes of your time. To participate in this study, please click the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R5Z937S
