It began medical social service appearance in England in 1880 and the reason for their appearance in this area to take care of patients with mental illnesses because they are in need of care before they came out of the hospital, and provide them with this service even when they are in their homes even avoid transmission and disease recurrence, and became in England volunteering movement in the service and help Patients and this movement emerged in 1890 and led by -charlzlok - and started in hospitals in New York in 1904 and was put up a new system that they do send some of the nurses that launched them name (visitors) to patients homes to do to provide advice and guidance on how to deal with the disease.
One of the important steps that this service has turned from academic study to practice was done by the Faculty of Medicine students who have the experience and training process in social institutions and that was in 1902 when the University of Baltimore asked the students to be volunteers in social charities in order to gain understanding and awareness of social issues and their implications, as well as economic and look at the living conditions in the event of sickness, with the result that expertise is the creation of Social Work in 1905 in many different entities holders America, and became social workers members and staff in public hospitals, due to the great merit in the development of medical and social service to the doctor Richard Cabot was in Masachoc Hospital in Boston in 1905 and in the same year a special section created in the same hospital cared for social and medical service, was soon past twenty years at the beginning, but was established more than 500 Department of Medical Social Service in America, and the doctors in Machost Hospital are the first to They touched on the need for social worker to help patients after discharge from the hospital.
It was the American Society of specialists and medical meetings establishment in 1918. The objective of this association is to raise the technical and artistic level of social service relating to the affairs of health and health care, and after that was created medical social service in Egypt.