‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning’ (Albert Einstein). On 14 and 15 November 2024, Sport and Exercise Medicine in Switzerland (SEMS) will host a special SEMS annual meeting, celebrating 75 years of sports medicine in Switzerland. While we all consider SEM a young specialty, one that is still not recognised as a full medical specialty in many countries around the world (including Switzerland), we also must acknowledge the trailblazing efforts of European countries at the start of the 20th century to bring SEM to life. In 1928, Switzerland hosted the St Moritz Winter Olympic Games. The event gave the impetus to the reunion of pioneers from 11 European countries, which led to the formation of the ‘Association Internationale Médico-Sportive’ (AIMS; today Fédération Internationale de Médecine du Sport or FIMS), with a Swiss as its first President. It would, however, take 20 or more years for most countries to develop national organised SEM societies, due to the troubled 1930s and 1940s. As we look back …

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瑞士运动与运动医学（SEMS）75岁生日


“从昨天学习，为今天而活，为明天而生。重要的是不要停止质疑“（阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦）。2024 年 11 月 14 日至 15 日，瑞士运动与运动医学协会 （SEMS） 将举办一场特别的 SEMS 年会，庆祝瑞士运动医学成立 75 周年。虽然我们都认为 SEM 是一个年轻的专业，在世界上许多国家（包括瑞士）仍未被认可为完整的医学专业，但我们也必须承认欧洲国家在 20 世纪初为使 SEM 栩栩如生所做的开创性努力。1928 年，瑞士主办了圣莫里茨冬季奥运会。这一活动推动了来自 11 个欧洲国家的先驱们的重聚，从而促成了“国际体育卫生协会”（AIMS，今天的国际体育联合会或 FIMS）的成立，瑞士人担任其第一任主席。然而，由于 1930 年代和 1940 年代的困境，大多数国家需要 20 年或更长时间才能发展出全国性的有组织的 SEM 协会。当我们回顾过去时......