Regional Initiatives
FAIMER concentrates its activities in developing regions in South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These regional concentrations guide the selection of Fellows and the allocation of FAIMER resources. They also focus the development of FAIMER’s Regional Institutes, centers of activity where ongoing exchange among health professions educators is intended to expand improvement in local health professions education systems. Applications are encouraged from educators across all health professions disciplines and across national boundaries in the regions.
FAIMER Regional Institutes are modeled on the FAIMER Institute curriculum. They include residential sessions, as well as distance learning sessions. Each participant is also required to propose and implement an education innovation project that is supported by the home institution. The length and number of the residential sessions as well as the number of Fellows accepted each year varies among the Regional Institutes. Please see details below.
To date there are five Regional Institutes, three in India, one in Brazil, and the Southern Africa Regional Institute, which began in February 2008. Two more Regional Institutes, one in East Africa and one in West Africa, are under development.
Regional Institutes
- GSMC-FAIMER Regional Institute: Mumbai, India
- CMCL-FAIMER Regional Institute: Ludhiana, India
- Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute: Tabuba, Brazil
- PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute: Coimbatore, India
- Southern Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute
- East Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute (in development)
- West Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute (in development)
Mumbai, India
GSMC-FAIMER Regional Institute website
The GSMC-FAIMER Regional Institute, the first Regional Institute to be developed, started in June 2005 and is based at the Seth G.S. Medical College in Mumbai, India. The College’s Medical Education and Technology Unit mounts the program each year under the direction of Avinash Supe. The program is open to interested health professions educators from South Asia. Sixteen Fellows are accepted each year.
2009 residential session dates:
Session 1: June 8-14 (incoming 2009 Fellows)
Session 3: June 13-16 (returning 2008 Fellows)
To learn more about Regional Institute applications, click here.
Ludhiana, India
CMCL-FAIMER Regional Institute website
The CMCL-FAIMER Regional Institute, under the direction of Tejinder Singh, welcomed its first group of Fellows in January 2006. It is based at the Christian Medical College at Ludhiana in Punjab. The program is open to interested health professions educators from South Asia. Sixteen Fellows are accepted each year.
2009 residential session dates:
Session 1: January 13-18 (incoming 2009 Fellows)
Session 3: January 16-20 (returning 2008 Fellows)
To learn more about Regional Institute applications, click here.
Tabuba, Brazil
The first residential session of the Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute, under the direction of Henry Campos and Eliana Amaral, took place in February 2007 in Tabuba, Brazil. The program, conducted in Portuguese, is open to interested health professions educators from Latin America. Twenty-five Fellows are accepted each year.
2009 residential session dates:
Session 1: February 2-12 (incoming 2009 Fellows)
Session 3: February 10-19 (returning 2008 Fellows)
For additional information in Portuguese, click here.
To learn more about Regional Institute applications, click here.
Coimbatore, India
PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute website
The PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute, under the direction of Thomas Chacko, welcomed its first class of Fellows in April 2007. It is based at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Coimbatore in southern India. The program is open to interested health professions educators from South Asia. Sixteen Fellows are accepted each year.
2009 residential session dates:
Session 1: April 18-24 (incoming 2009 Fellows)
Session 3: April 23-26 (returning 2008 Fellows)
To learn more about Regional Institute applications, click here.
Southern Africa
The first session of the Southern Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute (SAFRI) took place in February 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, marking the launch of FAIMER’s first regional initiative on the continent of Africa. SAFRI is being shepherded by a new “voluntary association” made up of a collaboration of FAIMER Institute Fellows working at a number of different health professions education institutions in the region. They have devised an innovative program model that includes three residential sessions during the two-year program. Fellows participate in two residential sessions, approximately four months apart, during the first year of the program. Their third residential session takes place the following year, and overlaps with the first residential session of the incoming class of Fellows. The program is open to interested health professions educators from Africa. Sixteen Fellows are accepted each year.
2009 residential session dates:
Session 1: March 5-10 (incoming 2009 Fellows)
Session 3: June 21-25 (2009 Fellows)
Session 5: March 9-13 (returning 2008 Fellows)
To learn more about Regional Institute applications, click here.
