This organization was built from an idea born in the House of the British Medical Association in 1945, within a meeting organized in London to initiate plans for an international medical organization to replace l'Association Professionnelle Internationale des Médecins", which had suspended its activities because of World War II.
這個組織是根據1945年在英國醫學協會出生的一個想法建立起來的，在倫敦舉辦的會議中上啟動了一個國際醫療組織的計劃，以取代因第二次世界大戰而暫停活動的國際醫學協會。