FAIMER launched the International FAIMER Institute (IFI) from Philadelphia, USA in 2001 with the goal of providing education and leadership development to health professionals worldwide. IFI Fellows are selected for their potential to play a key role in advancing health professions education and scholarship.
The core curriculum of the IFI is a two-year, part-time, online fellowship program designed to teach education methods, leadership and management, education scholarship and research, and project management and evaluation, as well as to develop strong professional bonds with other health professions educators around the world.
The online fellowship program uses an interactive, high-engagement approach that focuses on participants' projects as the “laboratory” to apply their learning. FAIMER Fellows have the unique opportunity to join and enrich the vast FAIMER global community and connect with colleagues from around the globe.
The IFI faculty includes a team of international health professions educators who design, teach, and provide support for IFI courses and project advisors who provide mentoring and support for Fellows' education projects.
The IFI core curriculum is also offered through the FAIMER Regional Institutes (FRls) where it is adapted to the local context. It is important to note that the core curriculum offered online through the IFI is neither a prerequisite nor an extension of the core curriculum offered through the FRls. Individuals who complete a fellowship through an FRI or the IFI are provided with a certificate that includes their respective Institute's name. All certificates are held with equal distinction and prestige.
In addition to the core curriculum, FAIMER develops and delivers new curricula in response to emerging regional and global health professions education needs. An example is the FAIMER Competency-Based Education professional development program (FACE) that is offered as a one-year virtual program from Philadelphia, USA for health professions educators around the globe.
International FAIMER Institute Fact Sheet
"When I started my journey with the FAIMER Institute, I never expected that it would be a journey for life. Once a FAIMER Fellow, always a FAIMER Fellow. Thanks to what I learned at FAIMER, I have been transformed to become an agent for change at many different levels.”
Wagdy Talaat
Egypt
"FAIMER has empowered me by building leadership skills which have ramifications in all aspects of my life. More importantly, we are surrounded in a community of practice and help is just a click away.”
Henal Shah
India
"I have advanced professionally, undertaking leadership roles in varying situations and positions with confidence as a result of the leadership training I received from FAIMER.”
Esther Ofoegbu
Nigeria
"The FAIMER Institute program equipped me with skills and confidence to take up a leadership role for furthering the cause of medical education in my part of the world.”
Thomas V. Chacko
India
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[Last update: October 15, 2025]
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