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Ensuring a bright present and future for sexual medicine

Nature Reviews Urology volume 15, pages 523–524 (2018)Cite this article

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Although sexual disorders have been widespread for millennia, sexual medicine has historically been an unofficial specialty with no standards of training or recognition. Initiatives from the European Society for Sexual Medicine have sought to cement its role in modern medicine and to encourage and support early-career physicians and sexologists in their chosen specialty.

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Fig. 1: The ESSM is committed to expanding and strengthening the field, with the support of other scientific societies and the MJCSM.

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Y.R. is President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM). S.S. is Chair of Young Sexual Medicine Academy of the ESSM.

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  1. Ziekenhuis Amstelland, Department of Urology, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Yacov Reisman

  2. Gulhane Research and Training Hospital, Department of Urology, Ankara, Turkey

    Selcuk Sarikaya

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Reisman, Y., Sarikaya, S. Ensuring a bright present and future for sexual medicine. Nat Rev Urol 15, 523–524 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-018-0041-x

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