The ICMM foundation in 1921 main goal is to bring together the medical personnel of its member states’ armed forces and share progress regarding the skills and expertise that make practising medicine in a medical environment special.
There quickly became a need to publish a scientific review, which led in 1928 to the advent of “The Bulletin International – Journal of the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy (or Bulletin International, Organe des Congrès Internationaux de Médécine et de Pharmacie Militaires)”

At the end of the Second World War, the publication was renamed “the International Bulletin of the Army, Navy and Air Force Medical Services (or Bulletin International des Services de Santé des Armées de Terre, de Mer et de L’Air.

In 1985, the International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services (Revue Internationale des Services de Santé des Forces Armées) was published for the first time.