About

The South Australian Association of Internal Medicine (SAAIM) is a statewide, interprofessional body for medical, nursing, allied and scientific health professionals working in General Internal Medicine services across South Australia. We exist because the challenges we face in service delivery, teaching, and clinical research are shared across hospitals and professions, and are better tackled together than in siloes.

SAAIM was formed in 2013 by clinicians who recognised these common threads and wanted to change the way we work: breaking down the barriers between disciplines, between departments within a hospital, and between hospitals within the same city. The standards and therapies we rely on today were built by clinicians concerned about their patients’ outcomes, driven by sympathy for suffering and by curiosity. We see it as our responsibility to do the same for the next generation of care.

We focus on:

• Promoting South Australian General Medicine locally, interstate, and internationally.
• Hosting two high‑quality scientific meetings each year (February and August).
• Supporting clinical research across professions and hospitals to address true areas of uncertainty.
• Developing and testing better methods of service delivery.
• Supporting General and Acute Care Medicine trainees and strengthening their connection with the general physician community.
• Providing research mentoring and shared learning in the methods that underpin our care.