SAM Standards, Policy and Vision
- Acute Medicine - Strengthening the Foundations (Feb 2025)
- Six to Help Fix (2023)
- Acute Medicine: A policy vision for improving urgent and emergency (UEC) care (2023)
- Rebuilding the NHS: better medical pathways for acute care (2022)
- SAM Structure February (2022)
- The Acute Medical Unit
SDEC
- SAM Position Statement SDEC: A need to pause and reset! (2024)
- Joint Statement RCEM and SAM regarding Same Day Emergency Care (2024)
- Joint Statement RCEM and SAM regarding Same Day Emergency Care (2019)
- RCPE/SAM Standards for Ambulatory Emergency Care (2019)
Ultrasound
Education
Research
SAM/RCP Resources & Toolkits
Society of Acute Medicine (SAM)
SAM is committed to supporting AMUs across the country providing high quality care for medical inpatients. SAM has many MDT members including Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and other key members of the acute medical team.
Training Hub
This section of the website deals with all matters pertaining to the training of doctors in Acute Medicine. Largely written by the junior doctors themselves this is the best place to find trustworthy and practical advice on training in Acute Medicine.
Learning Hub
This section of the website provides access to a wide selection of webinar videos and acute medical podcasts.
If you are a SAM member, you will gain access to all digital events with no extra charge once you login. Non-Members can have access to restricted content but you may wish to Join SAM.
Groups Hub
Acute Medicine as a specialty has a strong focus on Multi and Inter-disciplinary working. This section of the website provides a focus on some of the professions involved in Acute Medicine and provides valuable information and resources written by council leads representing each profession.
SAM has developed several Specialty Interest Groups that work within the Society, developing guidelines, resources and a better understanding of the relationship of Acute Medicine and the focus area of the SIG.
Wellbeing Hub
BMA defines moral distress as the psychological unease generated where professionals identify an ethically correct action to take but are constrained in their ability to take that action.
We are feeling this increasingly whilst working in Acute Medicine. We know on a basic level that corridor care and leaving patients in the waiting room for hours is not the right care that they need, but we are powerless to change this on an individual level.
Find our developing resources within this hub
