Of course we were delighted to have ‘won’ something for our efforts although neither of us really new what we had ‘won’. A trip to the ESIM Winter School in Riga, Latvia we were told was our prize courtesy of the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM). But what is ESIM? It stands for the European School of Internal Medicine (ESIM), an educational part of a larger organisation the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM). We both have to confess we knew nothing about either organisation. [download-attachments container="div" style="list" display_icon="1" display_count="1" display__size="0"]