The Society for Acute Medicine’s 8th Acute Medicine Awareness Week is going to be taking place week commencing Monday 10 June 2019 in all the acute medicine units throughout UK. Units are advised to choose any day that is convenient for them within the week for the celebration of everything acute medicine.
Registrations for the Awareness Week are now open! To register, please complete the registration form here and return this to Elin Andersson, administrator@acutemedicine.org.uk, to register your participation for the week. Please tell us what date you have chosen to celebrate everything Acute Medicine in your department. Please send us your registration form by 5pm on 4 June in order to receive AMAW merch such as balloons, canvas bags and buttons.
Please click here to download your AMAW19 resource pack.
If you are looking for any ideas of what to do please look at the activities through the link below which were organised by SAM members in previous year.
https://www.acutemedicine.org.uk/sam-events/acute-medicine-awareness-day/
This year Acute Medicine Awareness Week is been organised in collaboration with takeAIM Fellows. Please visit our website, http://www.takeaim.org.uk/ for everything Acute Medicine.
The hashtag for this event is #AMAW19, follow SAM on @acutemedicine & takeAIM on @take__AIM
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