Accademia Nazionale di Medicina (AccMed) is a non-profit scientific association that has been involved in the training and updating of healthcare professionals since 1991. In 1994 it was recognized by the Ministry of Health as an 'institution suitable for providing technical-scientific consultancy regarding the updating and information of doctors on drugs', while in 1995 the Ministry of Education, University and Research recognized AccMed’s legal personality. AccMed is National CME Provider No. 31, founding member of the European Federation of Medical Academies (FEAM), represents Italy in the health and medicine section of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP ), which brings together 149 academies from all over the world, and is a partner of the Unitelma Sapienza online university.
To celebrate the continuous commitment to training and updating in the medical-scientific field of the National Academy of Medicine and all the healthcare professionals who collaborate with it, the AccMed Awards were established in 2001.
The history of AccMed
In June 1981, prof. Leonardo Santi promotes the Higher School of Oncology and Biomedical Sciences (SSOSB) based in Santa Margherita Ligure, the first example in Italy of a structure with the sole objective of making a global ongoing training service available to doctors. In just a few years, the School became a cultural point of reference recognized by the Italian medical profession, which participated in large numbers in the activities promoted, especially in the oncology field.
In 1991 the National Academy of Medicine (AccMed) was established with Luigi Frati as president. AccMed is organized into Specialist Sections belonging to medical specialization schools recognized by the European Union. This produces an increase in activities in many disciplines.
AccMed opens up to important collaborations with scientific societies, research institutes, universities, hospitals, both secular and sector newspapers. It was called to join the European Federation of Medical Academies and was subsequently recognized by the MURST (now MIUR) and the Ministry of Health (now Salute).
The activities, which are increasingly numerous and qualified from year to year, find financial support in the participation fees paid by individual learners, in the funds made available by the European Union in the context of tenders launched to encourage innovative training projects, in sponsorships of those pharmaceutical industries that believe they can improve their image by financially supporting independent institutions whose institutional mandate is to provide doctors with training and cultural promotion services not conditioned by conflicts of interest.
