Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna

What Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna does

Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI) is a Spanish non-profit medical professional society founded on February 8, 1952, headquartered in Madrid (CIF: G28204329). It serves as the national umbrella body for internal medicine specialists in Spain, coordinating 17 regional/autonomous societies and more than 20 specialized working groups spanning areas such as diabetes, infectious diseases, autoimmunity, heart failure, palliative care, clinical ultrasound, and digital medicine. Its mission is to support internists through continuing education, clinical guidelines, research collaboration, professional certification (SEMI Excelente), and career services.

SEMI operates a broad digital and content portfolio. The flagship mobile product is GuardiApp, a clinical decision-support app covering 130+ pathology topics and 34 clinical calculators used by on-call internists. Educational delivery is handled through Campus Virtual (LMS), the Escuela de Investigación e Innovación, and the SEMINred research network. Content is published through three peer-reviewed journals — Revista Clínica Española, Revista Española de Casos Clínicos en Medicina Interna, and Spanish Journal of Medicine — alongside the blog 'Por una Medicina Interna de Alto Valor' and the DianaSalud appropriateness-of-care search tool (built with CIBERESP). A dedicated Clinical Ultrasound platform supports the working group. Research infrastructure includes the SEMI-COVID-19 registry (12,000+ patients) and other clinical registries.

The business model is a hybrid of recurring membership dues, event registration (national congress, regional events, webinars), publication revenue, and strategic-partnership sponsorship from global pharmaceutical firms (Menarini, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novo Nordisk). SEMI is owned by and accountable to its member internists, is affiliated internationally with EFIM and domestically with FEMI (its foundation), and operates as a non-commercial scientific society rather than a revenue-maximizing entity. Customer segments are physicians (primary), medical residents, and a small patient-facing public via the disease search tool.

Name

Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna

Legal name

Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna SEMI

Website

https://fesemi.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1952

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI) is the Spanish national medical professional society for internal medicine specialists, founded in 1952 and headquartered in Madrid. It coordinates 17 regional societies and 20+ working groups, delivering clinical decision-support apps, peer-reviewed journals, continuing education, research networks, and quality certification for internists across Spain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Professional Society Services

NAICS

Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

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PRIMARYEDAAALAC

Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Professional Licensure & Continuing Professional Education (CE/CPE)

Keywords

• Internal medicine society
• Continuing medical education
• Clinical research collaboration
• Physician certification programs
• Medical journal publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees from individual physician members across 17 regional/autonomous societies, including access to member-only resources, services, and certification programs (SEMI Excelente).
2. Event Registration Fees: Revenue from national congresses, scientific meetings, webinars, and regional society events including the annual SEMI congress and working group meetings.
3. Publications Revenue: Income from scientific journals including Revista Clínica Española, Revista Española de Casos Clínicos en Medicina Interna, and Spanish J Med. Revistas SEMI publishes protocols, guidelines (Guías SEMI), and consensus documents.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI) is a professional medical society founded in 1952 that provides continuing medical education, clinical guidelines, consensus documents, research collaboration networks, and professional certification for internal medicine physicians in Spain. It serves members through 20+ specialized working groups covering major internal medicine subspecialties, a network of 17 regional/autonomous societies, annual national congresses, peer-reviewed journals, digital clinical tools (GuardiApp), a virtual campus, clinical registries, and a job board.

Product overview

The Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI) operates a broad digital portfolio spanning clinical decision support, education, research, patient information, and quality certification. The flagship digital product is GuardiApp, a mobile clinical reference app with 130+ pathology topics and 34 clinical calculators. Supporting its educational mission are the Campus Virtual SEMI (online courses and masters), the Escuela de Investigación e Innovación (research training), and SEMINred (research network). Content and knowledge-sharing platforms include the blog 'Por una Medicina Interna de Alto Valor' (10 thematic blocks with fortnightly briefs) and DianaSalud (a search aggregator for 4,000+ appropriate care recommendations from 25 international sources). Publication outputs are served through three journals: Revista Clínica Española (flagship peer-reviewed journal), Revista Española de Casos Clínicos en Medicina Interna (clinical cases), and Spanish Journal of Medicine (English-language journal). A dedicated web platform supports the Clinical Ultrasound Working Group (manuals, case studies, newsletters, podcasts). For patients, SEMI provides a disease search tool. The SEMI Excelente program offers quality certification and recertification for internal medicine units and services. Research infrastructure includes clinical registries (e.g., SEMI-COVID-19 Registry) and a job board for members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GuardiApp: Mobile application for internal medicine professionals providing clinical decision support during medical shifts, including pathology references and calculation tools.
• SEMI Excelente
• Ecografía Clínica SEMI
• SEMI-COVID-19 Registry

Products and services

• SEMI Membership Annual membership program for individual internal medicine physicians in Spain, providing access to peer-reviewed journals, clinical guidelines, working groups, certification programs (SEMI Excelente), the virtual campus, the research network, and the job board. Members belong to one of 17 regional/autonomous societies covering all Spanish regions.
• GuardiApp Mobile application for medical professionals providing clinical decision support during on-call shifts and ward rounds. It includes over 130 pathology topics covering symptoms, diagnostics, and treatments, plus 34 clinical tools such as scoring scales, calculators, and perfusion dose calculations for drugs such as norepinephrine, dobutamine, and nitroglycerin. Available on iOS and Android.
• Campus Virtual SEMI SEMI's virtual campus platform providing online medical education, masters programs, and continuing professional development courses for internal medicine practitioners, including the Escuela de Investigación e Innovación research training school.
• Revista Clínica Española SEMI's flagship peer-reviewed medical journal publishing original clinical research in internal medicine, including an archive, ahead-of-print section, and reviewer recognitions.
• Revista Española de Casos Clínicos en Medicina Interna (RECCMI) SEMI journal dedicated to publishing clinical case reports in internal medicine.
• Spanish Journal of Medicine (Spanish J Med) SEMI's English-language medical journal publishing clinical research and reviews in internal medicine.
• SEMI Excelente Quality certification program for internal medicine services and units, including standards, accreditation of units, and recertification processes to recognize excellence in internal medicine practice.
• Bolsa de Trabajo Job board service for SEMI members listing physician specialist positions, fellowships, and employment opportunities in internal medicine departments across Spanish healthcare institutions.
• SEMINred SEMI's research network platform facilitating collaborative research projects and data sharing among SEMI member internists.
• Registros SEMI SEMI's clinical registries documenting clinical data for internal medicine patients across Spanish hospitals, including the SEMI-COVID-19 registry which has generated published research on patient characteristics, outcomes, mortality predictors, and phenotypic clusters.
• SEMI Annual National Congress Annual national congress and scientific meetings serving as the primary continuing-education and networking events for internal medicine practitioners in Spain, complemented by working-group scientific meetings, webinars, and regional society events.

Quantifiable outcome

• Clinical ultrasound working group provides educational manuals, case studies, newsletters, podcasts, and training centers across Spain
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature6 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• MenariniminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as strategic partner (socio estratégico) with logo displayed on main website footer. Pharmaceutical company collaboration for medical education and healthcare initiatives.
• Boehringer IngelheimminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as strategic partner (socio estratégico) with logo displayed on main website footer. Pharmaceutical company collaboration for medical education and healthcare initiatives.
• Novo NordiskminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as strategic partner (socio estratégico) with logo displayed on main website footer. Pharmaceutical company collaboration for medical education and healthcare initiatives.
• EFIM (European Federation of Internal Medicine)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational federation of internal medicine societies across Europe. SEMI maintains dedicated section on EFIM with congress information and collaborative European initiatives. EFIM publishes European Journal of Internal Medicine (EJIM) and EJCRIM.
• Universidad Autónoma de MadridminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with SEMI's Clinical Ultrasound Working Group for ultrasound training activities and educational programs.
• Universidad Internacional de AndalucíaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with SEMI's Clinical Ultrasound Working Group for ultrasound training activities and educational programs.
• Fundación IMAScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFoundation providing support for SEMI publications including the RECALMIN report on internal medicine patient care and El Hospital del Futuro project. Collaborative research and quality improvement initiatives.
• CIBERESP (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeveloped DianaSalud.com initiative for appropriate healthcare recommendations. Clinical Epidemiology Program creating database of 4,000+ recommendations from 25 global sources.
• Fundación Española de Medicina Interna (FEMI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociated foundation of SEMI, sharing headquarters and contact information. Publishes consensus documents and scientific guidelines. Contact: [email protected]

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer): Commercial clinical decision support platform competing directly with SEMI's GuardiApp for physician mindshare during on-call shifts and ward rounds. Closest commercial analogue to SEMI's flagship digital product.
• Cochrane: Global evidence synthesis organization whose mission overlaps with SEMI's DianaSalud appropriate-care initiative (4,000+ recommendations from 25 sources). Comparable as an evidence-aggregation and clinical-guidelines intermediary.

Broad incumbents

• European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Pan-European specialty society with membership, congresses, and journals at much larger scale than SEMI. Demonstrates how specialty societies can expand beyond national boundaries and serves as an aspirational scale comparison.
• American Medical Association (AMA): US-wide professional society covering all physicians with membership, CME, journals (JAMA), and advocacy. Broader scope than SEMI but represents the same operating archetype of national medical society infrastructure.

Direct peers

• American College of Physicians (ACP): Largest US-based internal medicine professional society with a directly parallel structure: individual membership, CME, clinical guidelines, flagship journal (Annals of Internal Medicine), and quality programs. The closest international analogue to SEMI's operating model.
• Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria (semFYC): Spanish primary care society with the same membership, regional structure, congress model, and CME offering as SEMI. Targets an overlapping Spanish physician audience and competes for the same member engagement and pharma sponsorship pool.
• Sociedad Española de Cardiología (SEC): Spanish cardiology society with parallel structure of regional groups, annual congresses, peer-reviewed journals, and working groups. Directly comparable to SEMI's operating model and competes for the same Spanish physician audience and pharma partners.
• Royal College of Physicians (London): UK national professional body for physicians with comparable membership, education, publications, and continuing professional development infrastructure. A direct cross-country equivalent of SEMI's mandate for internal medicine specialists.
• European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM): European umbrella federation in which SEMI holds core membership. EFIM operates parallel programs including the European Journal of Internal Medicine (EJIM), EJCRIM, and European congresses — directly comparable to SEMI's national-level journals and congresses.

Regional players

• Fundación para la Formación de la OMC (FFOMC): Spanish physician continuing education foundation operating in the same national market and CME category as SEMI's Campus Virtual. Comparable as a domestic competitor for physician training content and accreditation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/ecografiaclinicaes
• Facebookfacebook.com/ResidentesSEMI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sociedad-espanola-de-medicina-interna

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Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

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