about FSEM
The Intercollegiate Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM), a Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was established in 2006. It has the responsibility for creating and developing the new Specialty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. Its current roles include:
- Setting the Standards in Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Establishing Sport and Exercise Medicine training requirements and programmes
- Laying down the Sport and Exercise Medicine Curriculum (subject to PMETB)
- Detailing the competencies required in Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Running the Sport and Exercise Medicine examination and detailing other assessments required
- Acting for and representing the Specialty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Bringing the Specialty of Sport and Exercise Medicine together and working with other organisations
- Sport and Exercise Medicine education
- Appraisal
- Research together with the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine