Latest Events
SAM Webinar: Completion of Training and Life as a New Consultant, 26 February 2025 (online)
26/02/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The next SAM Webinar takes place on Wednesday 26 February 2025 from 7.30-9.00pm on Completion of Training and Life as a New Consultant. Learning Objectives 1. Explain the timeline of the final year of training and the practicalities of obtaining an AIM CCT 2. Provide insight into the different responsibilities and the non-clinical aspect of […]
SAM Advanced Week of Education, 5-7 March 2025, Bangor
05/03/2025 – 07/03/2025 @ All Day – The Society for Acute Medicine is delighted to offer a 3 day residential finishing school which will offer a transformative experience for senior AIM doctors approaching CCT to prepare for their first Consultant post (and interview). The course will ensure that attendees step confidently into their future role as a consultant in Acute Medicine and […]
Acute Medics as Improvers – QI in SDEC, 5 March – 24 June 2025
05/03/2025 – 24/06/2025 @ All Day – Acute Medics as Improvers – QI in SDEC The Society for Acute Medicine with Aqua has developed a bespoke Quality Improvement programme. This course is delivered over four ½ day (PM) sessions with four 2hr (PM) coaching sessions in between supporting attendees to learn core QI skills be applying the theory to real life examples relating to improvements in Same Day Emergency […]
SAM Ultrasound Course, 7 May 2025, Cambridge
07/05/2025 @ All Day – Society for Acute Medicine Ultrasound Course Date: Wed 7 May 2025 Venue: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1RQ Cost: £50 SAM Members | £150 non-SAM members This course is aimed at providing the foundations for the three core FAMUS modules: thoracic, abdominal/renal and DVT/peripheral vascular access. Attendees must have completed […]

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
