Latest Events
SAM Educational Evening: Frailty for the Acute Physician, 28 November 2024 (online)
28/11/2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The Society for Acute Medicine are hosting a series of educational evenings throughout 2024. The next SAM Educational Evening takes place on Thursday 28 November from 7.30-9.00pm. The topic is “Frailty for the Acute Physician” presented by Dr Sean Ninan, Leeds. 2 CPD points have been applied for. The webinars are free to attend for […]
SAMontheCAM, 8-9 May 2025
08/05/2025 – 09/05/2025 @ All Day – SAVE THE DATE! Society for Acute Medicine’s Spring Conference 8-9 May 2025, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge Abstract submission and registration will open in late November 2024.
Society for Acute Medicine (SAM)
SAM is committed to supporting AMUs across the country providing high quality care for medical inpatients. SAM has many MDT members including Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and other key members of the acute medical team.
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Training Hub
This section of the website deals with all matters pertaining to the training of doctors in Acute Medicine. Largely written by the junior doctors themselves this is the best place to find trustworthy and practical advice on training in Acute Medicine.
Learning Hub
This section of the website provides access to a wide selection of webinar videos and acute medical podcasts.
If you are a SAM member, you will gain access to all digital events with no extra charge once you login. Non-Members can have access to restricted content but you may wish to Join SAM.
Groups Hub
Acute Medicine as a specialty has a strong focus on Multi and Inter-disciplinary working. This section of the website provides a focus on some of the professions involved in Acute Medicine and provides valuable information and resources written by council leads representing each profession.
SAM has developed several Specialty Interest Groups that work within the Society, developing guidelines, resources and a better understanding of the relationship of Acute Medicine and the focus area of the SIG.
Policy Hub
This section of the website provides access to a SAM standards, policy, position statements and vision.
This section also provides a history of the Society for Acute Medicine by Dr Rhid Dowdle OBE, retired Consultant Physician and Cardiologist and Archivist of the Society for Acute Medicine
Wellbeing Hub
BMA defines moral distress as the psychological unease generated where professionals identify an ethically correct action to take but are constrained in their ability to take that action.
We are feeling this increasingly whilst working in Acute Medicine. We know on a basic level that corridor care and leaving patients in the waiting room for hours is not the right care that they need, but we are powerless to change this on an individual level.
Find our developing resources within this hub
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