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. 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 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. The successful bid for the London Olympics was seen as a very helpful event in establishing the faculty and the specialty in the UK. Past Presidents. Dr John Etherington, Dr Paul D Jackson, Dr Roderick D Jaques, Prof Mark E Batt, Prof Charles S B Galasko