In April 2014, FAIMER and the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) announced the launch of the World Directory of Medical Schools. This new resource is the result of a March 2012 agreement to merge the organizations’ respective directories—FAIMER’s International Medical Education Directory (IMED) and WFME’s Avicenna Directory—to produce a single comprehensive resource on undergraduate …(read more)
FAIMER is pleased to announce the selection of five winners of its fourth annual Projects That Work competition. A representative of each project will be sponsored by FAIMER to attend the 2016 conference of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH), to be held July 26-30 at China Medical University in Shenyang, China. Winners will …(read more)
FAIMER is pleased to announce the selection of 20 winners of its 2016 Student Projects for Health competition. The Student Projects for Health competition—supported by GEMx and FAIMER—will be a feature of the 2016 conference of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH) that will take place July 26-30 at China Medical University in Shenyang, …(read more)
Rashmi Vyas, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.H.P.E., FAIMER’s Associate Director of Regional Faculty Development, recently completed a year-long Fellowship in Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE). ELATE at Drexel® is a national leadership development program designed to advance senior women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and related disciplines into effective institutional leadership …(read more)
The first residential session of the 2016 Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute took place February 13-25, 2016, in Beberibe, Ceará, Brazil, under the direction of Eliana Amaral and Henry Campos. The 2016 Brazil-FAIMER Fellows are: Ernani Aloysio Amaral, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Jardim São Paulo, Brazil Cassia Beatriz Batista, Universidade Federal de São …(read more)
In February 2016, the Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute welcomed its 10th class of Fellows and celebrated this important milestone in Beberibe, Ceará, Brazil. More than 150 people took part in the anniversary celebration, including the 39 incoming Brazil-FAIMER Fellows, alumni who serve as faculty for the program, other alumni, international faculty, and prominent guests. A focal …(read more)
FAIMER is pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of the International Fellowship in Medical Education (IFME): Anuj Chawla, M.B.B.S., M.D., Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India Francisco Lamus, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., Universidad de la Sabana, Chía, Colombia Champion Nyoni, B.Sc., M.Sc., R.N., Paray School of Nursing, Lesotho, South Africa All three Fellows will pursue a …(read more)
The residential session of the FAIMER Institute, which takes place in Philadelphia each year, will be moving from October to March—effective with the next incoming class of Fellows, who will attend the residential session in March 2017. The decision to move the Institute was made based on careful consideration of feedback from Fellows and a …(read more)
The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) has announced that it will host a symposium titled “Accreditation and the Recognition of Accreditation: Where Are We Now?” in conjunction with the PAFAMS-AMFEM conference Educación Médica en las Américas (Medical Education in the Americas) that will take place June 14-18, 2016, in Cancún, Mexico. The symposium will …(read more)
FAIMER is currently accepting 2016 applications for the FAIMER-Keele Distance Learning program. The deadline for application is August 31, 2016, and course work will begin on September 26, 2016. (The 2017 application will open in early 2017.) Now in its fourth year, the program is conducted in partnership with Keele University and The Centre for …(read more)
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