FAIMER Institute
Description
The FAIMER Institute is a two-year fellowship program designed for international health professions educators who have the potential to play a key role in improving health professions education at their institution. The program is designed to teach education methods, management, and leadership skills, as well as to develop strong professional bonds with other health professions educators around the world.
Each year, 16 international health professions educators are selected as FAIMER Institute Fellows. The fellowship program includes two residential sessions (Sessions 1 and 3) that take place one year apart in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States, and two 11-month distance learning sessions (Sessions 2 and 4), one following the first residential session and one following the second residential session. During the residential sessions, Fellows engage in highly interactive activities that address basic education and scholarship as well as promote the development of leadership and management skills. During the distance learning sessions, Fellows participate in the Mentoring and Learning Web (ML-Web), a series of web-based teaching and learning discussions with other Fellows and Institute faculty. During Session 2, each first-year Fellow completes an education innovation project, and prepares a poster and an abstract based on the project, with mentoring and support from a faculty member and second-year Fellows. During Session 4, in addition to mentoring first-year Fellows, second-year Fellows work with Institute faculty to develop further educational scholarship and deepen their knowledge base in health professions education and research through the ML-Web discussions.
