Foundation For Advancement Of Intl Medical Education And Research

Programs: Education - the goal of faimer's education program is to create and enhance educational opportunities for those who teach health professionals. These educational opportunities provide the skills and knowledge necessary to enhance and expand health professions education, with the goal of improving health outcomes. Faimer focuses its educational programs in developing regions in south asia, africa, and latin america. These geographic concentrations bring together local communities of health professions educators, facilitating communication and collaboration. They also establish local working models for enhancing health professions education in these areas. Faimer offers two fellowship programs for health professions educators: the faimer institute and the international fellowship in medical education (ifme) program. Faimer has aligned these programs to create an educational pathway for leadership that will allow international health professions educators to become outstanding local resources for improving health professional education.

research - faimer research focuses on projects that will help to identify, track and assess the educational experiences and migration patterns of international medical graduates. Faimer seeks to understand the complex issues related to the supply of and need for physicians in various regions around the world by targeting research efforts in three key areas: international migration of physicians, u. S. Physician workforce issues and international medical education programs. Faimer strives to be the single best source of information on international medical schools and their graduates. It constructs and links data resources that house information on health professions education and physicians worldwide. The goal is for these repositories to contain both current and historical information and for them to be freely and easily accessible to health professions educators, researchers, policy makers, and organizations concerned with credentialing and licensure. They are also intended to be an important resource for health care consumers and prospective medical school students.

the distance learning program offers health professions educators the opportunity to receive advanced training in all aspects of health professions education. Educators in medicine, nursing, dentistry, and other health professions can acquire the knowledge and skills to advance health professions education at their institutions to the highest international standards.