The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) (FSEM) is a not-for-profit professional organisation responsible for training, educating and representing over 500 doctors in the United Kingdom.
SEM physicians are able to prescribe drugs, perform minor surgical procedures, use diagnostic ultrasound and order other radiological imaging and blood tests, as well as providing exercise prescriptions for injury and disease.
[citation needed] In 1998, the Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine (IABSEM) was formed under the auspices of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
In 2001, the Department of Health produced a document, "Developing specialties in medicine", to be used as a template for the formation of new specialities.
[2] The successful bid for the 2012 London Olympics was seen as a very helpful event in establishing the faculty and the specialty in the UK.