Swiss Society for General Internal Medicine / Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur Allgemeine Innere Medizin (SGAIM)

With over 7,500 members, the SGAIM is the largest medical society in Switzerland. SGAIM unites doctors who work on both an outpatient and inpatient basis.

• The SGAIM positions itself as the strong and competent representative of general internal medicine (AIM) vis-à-vis politics as well as the various actors and authorities in health care.
As a professional society, it wants to meet the demands of reflective and critical medicine, which also questions itself and sets limits. Among other things, the focus is on the reality of life for patients, which is becoming increasingly complex and polymorbid.
• She also sees it as an important task to sensitize and inform not only the medical profession but also the population about AIM topics. With its “smarter medicine” campaign ( www.smartermedicine.ch ), she not only wants to reach a specialist audience, but also wants to show the affected patients and them that less medicine often means better treatment.
• Another central concern of SGAIM is the promotion of young talent. On the one hand, the aim is to convey the attractiveness of AIM to young doctors and, on the other hand, to offer the next generation a broad platform in the specialist society.
• By organizing its own congresses, managing the specialist title and the accreditation of core advanced training courses, SGAIM stands for the maintenance and expansion of professional competence and guarantees high-quality training, further education and training.
• The SGAIM promotes research and science both ideally and through close cooperation with the institutes for family medicine and the medical departments of Swiss universities. With financial contributions from its foundation, the SGAIM supports specific scientific projects for the further development of the AIM.
• After all, the subject of quality is one of the central tasks of the specialist society, as is the representation in questions of tariff structuring within the framework of SwissDRG.