About

The South Australian Association of Internal Medicine is the statewide, interprofessional body representing medical, nursing and allied and scientific health professionals working within General Internal Medicine services in South Australia.

The challenges we face as clinicians (service delivery, teaching, and the dearth of clinical research) and that our patients face, are not unique, but are common across hospitals. That is why we came together in 2013, because we recognised the common threads and that we could do more working together, than working separately in siloes, the same siloes that divide clinicians caring for an individual patient; the same siloes that divide departments within the same hospital; and the same siloes that divide hospitals within the same city. We wanted to change all that.

The standards we have now, and the therapies we apply to patients, were developed by clinicians worried about patients’ outcomes, clinicians driven by human sympathy with the suffering, driven by curiosity. We must do the same.

We focus on:

• Promoting the specialty of South Australian General Medicine within the ranks of clinicians locally, interstate and internationally
• Hosting two high-quality scientific meetings per year (February and August)
• Clinical research between professions and across hospitals, research aimed at answering clinical questions in areas of uncertainty (aka equipoise)
• Finding methods of service delivery that enhance care
• Supporting the development of trainees in General and Acute Care Medicine and fostering their connection with the General Physician Community
• Research mentoring, helping each other understand research, learning together the research methods underpinning our care