The European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) was founded in 1996 from the Association Européenne de Médicine Interne (AEMI)*. AEMI itself had been founded in 1969 by members of the UEMS monospecialty section on internal medicine to provide a scientific organisation for European internal medicine. EFIM was formed by bringing together the national societies of internal medicine from each of the European countries, both inside and outside the European Union. EFIM currently comprises 48 member Societies representing over 65,000 internists. *History of (Young) AEMI(E) and the EFIM. UEF Carcassi, JWF Elte, C Davidson Eur J Int Med 2007; 18: 26-30. (PDF)
The purpose of EFIM is to re-emphasise the importance of Internal Medicine in a world of increasing specialisation. EFIM maintains close links with European and international partners, in particular through the Monospecialty Committee of the Union of European Medical Specialists (UEMS), as well as through active collaborations with organisations such as the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), and other European initiatives including the European Health Alliance on Alcohol, the ESC Council on Stroke, and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and others.
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