Promoting Sport and Exercise Medicine to the next generation
A national, non-profit society for undergraduates interested in SEM, run by foundation doctors and medical students.
What is USEMS?
Run by foundation doctors and medical students, for undergraduates
The Undergraduate Sport and Exercise Medicine Society (USEMS) is a non-profit society working to promote the speciality of Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) to interested undergraduates in the UK. We mainly work with medical students, but students of physiotherapy and dentistry, and anyone else with an interest in SEM or Sport and Exercise Science, are very welcome to follow USEMS news and events.
SEM information and opportunities already exist across the UK, spread across universities, regional societies and professional bodies. USEMS want to make it more accessible: one place to discover and promote local societies, events, education and the routes into SEM, whichever university you're at. We also work with the College of SEM to organise competitions, awards and grants to help undergraduates interested in SEM.
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Free and open to every UK undergraduate interested in SEM, whatever you study and wherever you are.
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Run by students and foundation doctors, for students, not a top-down professional body.
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One home for events, education and societies across the UK, including the national conference.
What USEMS does
How we support undergraduates interested in SEM
Make SEM information accessible
Bring the most useful SEM information into one place so students can get active in the field before postgraduate training.
Advocate for SEM teaching
Provide SEM resources where the undergraduate curriculum falls short, and push for better, more consistent SEM teaching in medical school.
Explain the routes into SEM
Help students understand SEM as a career and the different routes in, not just higher specialty training but the many other paths towards it.
Connect you with clinicians
Use our network to connect students with SEM-interested doctors in their area, opening the door to shadowing and mentoring.
Run courses & events
Organise the national conference, teaching series and one-day courses through the year.
Get students involved
Opportunities in SEM blogging, research, audits, athlete screening and public health initiatives.
Maintain strong links
Work closely with BASEM, FSEM and the wider SEM community as it moves towards CSEM.
Build a network
A platform for students across the UK to network with each other and with SEM professionals.
Secure discounts
Liaise with organisers to obtain larger student discounts for SEM events and conferences.
Our community
Links with the SEM community
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) has supported USEMS since its advent in 2011. It has promoted, supported and provided networking and educational opportunities for students, and has sponsored USEMS events to help the next generation of SEM professionals access education during training at a reasonable cost.
BASEM and the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM) are working towards integration within a single body, the College of Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine (CSEM). USEMS is completely free to join, and more information on how undergraduates can get involved with CSEM will be made available in due course.
Partners
Organisations we work with
External partners offering something directly useful to undergraduates interested in SEM — training, resources or discounts.