Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK

The Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine (FSEM) (UK) is a not-for-profit professional organisation responsible for training, educating, and representing over 500 doctors in the United Kingdom.[1] These doctors practise medicine in the specialty of Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM). The FSEM is housed in the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, but is an intercollegiate faculty of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and RCSEd

AbbreviationFSEM
MottoHealth through Sport & Exercise
Formation2006
Legal statusNon-profit
PurposeEducation, training, standards and advocacy of sports physicians
HeadquartersEdinburgh
Location
  • Scotland
Region served
United Kingdom
Membership
Doctors
President
Dr John Etherington
Websitehttps://www.fsem.ac.uk/

Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM) practice in the United Kingdom

Sport & Exercise Medicine is a specialty area of medicine. In the UK, the status of SEM is of a stand-alone specialty with FSEM (UK) being the specialist body administering training and education. Sport and exercise medicine physicians are able to prescribe drugs, perform minor surgical procedures, use Diagnostic ultrasound and order other radiological imaging and blood tests, as well as providing exercise prescription for injury and disease.

History

In 1998, the Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine (IABSEM) was formed under the auspices the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. In 2001, the Department of Health produced a document, “Developing specialties in medicine” to be used as a template for formation of new specialties. In 2004 an application was submitted and it was approved by the Department of Health in February 2005.

In 2006, the Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine (UK) was established.[2] The successful bid for the London Olympics was seen as a very helpful event in establishing the faculty and the specialty in the UK.[3][4]

The FSEM (UK) also publishes multiple Position Statements.

Past Presidents

Dr Paul D Jackson, Dr Roderick D Jaques, Prof Mark E Batt, Prof Charles S B Galasko

See also

References
  1. "Draft WHO global action plan on physical activity 2018-2030" (PDF). who.int. World Health Organization. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. Cullen, M.; Batt, M. (1 May 2005). "Sport and exercise medicine in the United Kingdom comes of age". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 39 (5): 250–251. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2005.019307. ISSN 0306-3674.
  3. Hamlyn, Peter (2 February 2007). "Olympics: Sports doctors in NHS marks start of London's legacy".
  4. Tew, Garry A.; Copeland, Robert J.; Till, Simon H. (19 July 2012). "Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy". BMC Medicine. 10 (1): 74. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-74. ISSN 1741-7015.
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