Individual Membership

1-Year Active Membership

3-Year Active Membership

Life Membership

Student Membership

Resident Membership

Technician Membership

Emeritus Membership

Allied Membership

1-Year Active Membership

An applicant for membership needs to be a licensed physician or nurse; or hold a designation as an aviation medical examiner, flight nurse, flight medical officer, aviation medical director, aerospace medicine physician assistant, or submarine or diving medical officer, or be a scientist, engineer, technician, teacher, researcher, student or commissioned in the armed services and be concerned with the fields of aerospace medicine, aeronautics, astronautics, undersea medicine, or environmental health. Payment of the membership fee provides Active Members:

  • One-year subscription to the online Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance journal
  • Discounted rates for the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting registration fee for one year
  • Full voting participation in the governance of the Aerospace Medical Association for one year
  • Opportunity to participate as a volunteer in AsMA committees for one year
  • Opportunity to compete for AsMA elected positions for one year

3-Year Active Membership

An applicant for membership needs to meet the qualifications for a 1-year member. Payment of the membership fee provides Active 3-Year Members with all of the Benefits of 1-year membership for a period of 3 years.

Life Membership

An applicant for membership needs to meet the same requirements as a 1-year member at the time of joining. Payment of the membership fee provides Life Members with all of the benefits of membership described for 1-year members, for the rest of their life.

NOTE: Please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call the Member Services Department at 703-739-2240 x107 to express interest in a Life Membership.

Student Membership

An applicant for membership needs to be enrolled as a full-time student in an approved undergraduate or graduate training program. Payment of the membership fee provides Student Members with all of the benefits of a 1-year membership.

NOTE: Proof of Student status must be provided to the Aerospace Medical Association Member Services Department before approval. Please send appropriate documentation of full-time Student status to [email protected].

Resident Membership

An applicant for membership needs to be enrolled as a full-time medical Resident student in an approved medical residency training program. Payment of the membership fee provides Resident Members the same benefits as a 1-year member.

NOTE: Proof of Resident status must be provided to the Aerospace Medical Association Member Services Department before approval. Please send appropriate documentation of Resident status to [email protected].

Technician Membership

An applicant for membership needs to be a scientific technician, research assistant, non-commissioned officer or enlisted member in the armed services and be concerned with the fields of aerospace medicine, aeronautics, astronautics, undersea medicine, environmental health, or human performance. Payment of the membership fee entitles Technician Members to the same benefits as a 1-year member.

Emeritus Membership

Emeritus membership is available to those who have been AsMA members for 25 years and over 65 years of age. They retain all rights and privileges of regular members and are entitled to the electronic version of the official journal via the Association website. Payment of the membership fee provides Emeritus Members the same benefits as a 1-year member.

NOTE: Please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call the Member Services Department at 703-739-2240 x107 to express interest in an Emeritus membership.

Allied Membership

Allied membership is available to those who are residents of a country listed by the United Nations as a Low-Income or Low-Middle-Income country. Payment of the membership fee provides Allied Members with all of the benefits of a 1-year membership. Allied Members also are offered free registration to the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting.

The United Nations identifies the following countries as Low-Income or Low-Middle-Income:

Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Angola | Argentina | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Bangladesh | Belarus | Belize | Benin | Bhutan | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Botswana | Brazil | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cabo Verde | Cambodia | Cameroon | Central African Republic | Chad | China | Colombia | Comoros | Congo | Costa Rica | Côte d’Ivoire | Cuba | Dem.Rep.of the Congo | Dem. People’s Rep. of Korea | Djibouti | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt | El Salvador | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Eswatini | Fiji | Gabon | Gambia | Georgia | Ghana | Guatemala | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Haiti | Honduras | India | Indonesia | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Iraq | Jamaica | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kiribati | Kyrgyzstan | Lao PDR | Lebanon | Lesotho | Liberia | Lybia | Madagascar | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Mexico | Mongolia | Montenegro | Morocco | Mozambique | Myanmar | Namibia | Nepal | Nicaragua | Niger | Nigeria | North Macedonia | Pakistan | Papua New Guinea | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Republic of Moldova | Russian Federation | Rwanda | Samoa | São Tomé and Principe | Senegal | Serbia | Sierra Leone | Solomon Islands | Somalia | South Africa | Sri Lanka | State of Palestine | South Sudan | Sudan | Suriname | Syrian Arab Republic | Tajikistan | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Togo | Tunisia | Türkiye | Turkmenistan | Uganda | Ukraine | United Republic of Tanzania | Uzbekistan | Vanuatu | Viet Nam | Yemen | Zambia | Zimbabwe