Exercise is Medicine® (EIM) is a global initiative lead by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). EIM Australia is managed by Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA).
EIM Australia is focused on encouraging health care providers, with a specific focus on doctors, nurses and aboriginal health workers, to review and assess every patient’s physical activity levels at every visit. Patients should be counselled on exercise regimens, and provided with an exercise prescription or referral to an accredited exercise physiologist, accredited exercise scientist or appropriately qualified allied health professional.
To make physical activity and exercise a standard component of chronic disease prevention and management.
General Practitioners, Practice Nurses & Allied Health Professionals
Exercise is Medicine® Australia is encouraging general practitioners, practice nurses and allied health professionals to make a physical activity or exercise assessment a part of their interaction with every patient, every visit.
Exercise is Medicine® Australia is providing resources to assist healthcare providers assess their patient’s current physical activity levels, to educate healthcare providers and patients alike, on the role that exercise has in the prevention, treatment and management of chronic conditions as well as referral processes in Australia.
The primary aim of Exercise is Medicine® Australia is to encourage physical activity or exercise that is sustained for the long-term.
Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA)
Anita Hobson-Powell (CEO Exercise & Sports Science Australia)
University of Queensland (UQ)
Jeff Coombes (EIM Australia National Director)
Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)
Nicole McClure
Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP)
Kate Simkovic
Adam Castricum
Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)
Karin Kleynhans
Edith Cowan University (ECU)
Robert Newton
Sports Medicine Australia (SMA)
Craig Knox
Tintenbar Medical Centre
Lynne Davies
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC)
Chris Askew
The Department of Health
Tiali Goodchild