Canadian Society of Internal Medicine (CSIM)

The Canadian Society of Internal Medicine (CSIM) is a national medical society of physicians who are specialists in the broad discipline of General Internal Medicine. CSIM members provide expert medical care for adults with complex multi-system diseases at community and academic hospitals across Canada. CSIM members are teachers of medical students and residents and leaders in health research.

Mission:
The CSIM is a non-profit professional society that promotes the health and well-being of Canadian patients, their communities, and their health care systems. They seek to foster leadership and excellence in the practice of General Internal Medicine (GIM) through research, education, and advocacy for health promotion and disease management.

Vision:
They believe that General Internal Medicine in Canada plays a central role in the training of current and future clinicians, in clinical research, in patient care, in health promotion, and in health advocacy; and that it unites a body of knowledge, values, and principles of care that lay the foundation for excellence in the Canadian health care system.

Values:
They embrace the ethical and professional standards that are common to all healing professions, as well as the specific values of generalism, teamwork, competency-based training, life-long learning, evidence-based medicine, holism, and humane, patient-centered care.