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r_text[0] = "Through the FAIMER community I get linked to rich resources and stimulated to look at issues in a different light and perspective. – <i>Nor Azila Mohd Adnan, 2002 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[1] = "I had always seen myself as a scientist but now I see myself more as a medical educator, one that can help others at my institution and region. – <i>Nor Azila Mohd Adnan, 2002 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[2] = "Although FAIMER Institutes represent three continents, we share similar core problems. We work in very similar environments - resource-poor environments. –  <i>Thomas Chacko, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[3] = "…the feeling is great that there are more than 50 competent and intelligent people all over the world whom I can ask for any help… – <i>Thomas Chacko, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[4] = "I strongly feel that we as FAIMER family members in our countries have now a strong challenge, which is to help other faculty members in not only our own medical schools, but others as well, so that the mission of the FAIMER Institute can be accomplished. – <i>Muhammad Z. Khan, 2003 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[5] = "At the level of my institution an observable change in the attitude of lecturers towards students has occurred. – <i>Esther Ofoegbu, 2005 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[6] = "FAIMER Institute is not just a course for all of us; it is a process of Human doing… – <i>Avinash Supe, 2002 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[7] = "Indeed, when people come together with a common goal, the experience of sharing transforms them.  We were all different, yet the same in a sense because we shared one passion -- teaching medicine.  – <i>Milagros Rabe, 2005 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[8] = "First and foremost, the FAIMER exposure and experience brought to my very consciousness the fact that medical education is a researchable art and science.  It turned me from a classroom lecturer or speaker, to a classroom researcher who experiments with new teaching strategies; a reflective teacher who constantly tests new ways of interacting with students in order to enhance the teaching and learning process. – <i>Christy A.N. Okoromah, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[9] = "FAIMER Institute exposed me to both the general rudiments of leadership and to specific leadership skills in an academic setting.  – <i>Christy A.N. Okoromah, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[10] = "I challenged [my department] to reflect on whether we were equipping our students to cope with the realities that face us in the 21st Century in Africa. – <i>David Cameron, 2005 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[11] = "FAIMER experience is an irresistible one. You cannot help but want to share it with other faculty informally and more formally too. – <i>Christy A.N. Okoromah, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[12] = "FAIMER provided a unique educational opportunity for a multi-racial /multicultural/ multi-professional mix of medical educators and fostered building of a global professional network. Not simply “networking” but a unique community where there is mutual… accountability, genuine care and human connection, and long-term investment in each others development. – <i>Christy A.N. Okoromah, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[13] = "The FAIMER experience reinforced the irrevocable link between medical education and healthcare or health outcomes. – <i>Christy A.N. Okoromah, 2004 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[14] = "We are creating a collaborating group to share experiences and resources, to put efforts together to make a healthier world and to improve medical education in our countries.  – <i>Mary Bermudez-Gomez, 2007 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[15] = "What are we creating together? A community of international leaders in health professions education who will introduce innovation and changes in the teaching&#8209;learning experiences of students in response to the current health needs of the society and the world. – <i>Lanie Nicodemus, 2007 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[16] = "We are creating together a network of interested faculty in medical education who are willing to share their experience and creativity with their FAIMER colleagues and benefit from the rich diversity of the backgrounds. – <i>Wagdy Youssef, 2007 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[17] = "Together we are building an international (intercultural) culture of medical education based on mutual understanding, culture, contact, and exchange. – <i>Yucel Gursel, 2007 FAIMER Institute</i>";

r_text[18] = "[We are creating] a global faculty of health professional educators to effect change in health care.  – <i>Gboyega Ogunbanjo, 2007 FAIMER Institute </i>";

r_text[19] = "We are creating together a global family team – each is appreciative of the worth of the others; each is responsible for the growth of the others; each is bonded in the trust of the others; each is committed to the excellence of the others; and Together Each is Achieving More (TEAM) than what we could have each achieved separately, in our separate little corners of this globe. – <i>Si Mui (Debra) Sim, 2007 FAIMER Institute</i>";

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