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Sport and exercise medicine
Sport and exercise medicine in the United Kingdom comes of age
1 Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast BT9 7JB, Northern Ireland, UK
2 Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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Sport and exercise medicine in the United Kingdom is awarded specialty status, but now the real work begins, to deliver on promises made
Keywords: sport and exercise medicine; specialty
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The 21 February 2005 proved to be a red letter day for sport and exercise (SEM) medicine in the United Kingdom, as the Department of Health announced that it was approving the application for specialty status submitted in early 2004. This ended a process that began in 1998 with the formation of the Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine (IABSEM), under the auspices the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Progress was slow until early 2003, when the intervention of the Minister of Sport led to an educational forum and the subsequent formation of a working party tasked with developing the application. The working party consisted of medical professionals, representatives of UK Sport, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department of Health. The application had to clearly establish that the creation of a new medical specialty was the best and most effective
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