The Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research[1] (FAIMER) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to "support the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) as it promotes international health professions education through programmatic and research activities.
[4] The directory is now discontinued and has been replaced by the World Directory of Medical Schools[5] FAIMER was established in 2000 by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).
[2] FAIMER launched the International Medical Education Directory (IMED) in 2002.
In 2014, FAIMER and the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) announced the launch of the World Directory of Medical Schools by merging the organizations' respective directories: FAIMER's International Medical Education Directory (IMED) and WFME's Avicenna Directory for medicine,[6] which is used by the ECFMG to determine eligibility of international medical graduates for the USMLE examinations and ECFMG certification.
This article about a United States health organization is a stub.