SASMA: Happy to be 'hip', wary of being too 'hip happy'

摘要

The slang term 'to be hip', meaning fashionably current and in the know, probably has its origins in African-American Vernacular English and became popularly used in the African-American dominated jazz scene of the 1930s and 1940s.1 This year's Fourth International Conference on Injury Prevention hosted by the IOC in Monaco was the place for 'hip' sport and exercise clinicians to be seen. Fireworks over the harbour, a reception at the palace and an opening address by the Prince may have left many star struck, but it was the networking with the 'who's who' of Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) during and in between the insightful sessions that would have had the most impact, especially with so many established faces mingling with young clinicians and up-and-coming researchers.