Exercise is Medicine (EIM) is a nonprofit initiative co-launched on November 5, 2007, by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Association, with support from the Office of the Surgeon General and the 18th Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.
The Exercise is Medicine (EIM) initiative calls for physical activity to be included as a standard part of medical treatment and the patient care process.
Under the guidance of Dr. Sallis and the EIM advisory board, Adrian Hutber, PhD, served as the first vice president and has overseen the global development of the initiative over its first decade of existence.
[citation needed] The Exercise is Medicine Solution is the practical implementation of EIM in a health system.
[3] The EIM Solution is designed as a simple, brief four-step process that can be carried out in the clinical setting in under five minutes by the entire healthcare team.