STFM OPENS FAMILY MEDICINE DIGITAL RESOURCES LIBRARY

STFM opens family medicine digital resources library.

In late 2004, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine was awarded a 3-year grant expected to total approximately $400,000 by the National Library of Medicine to develop the Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL). FMDRL will provide an administrative and technical framework for the dissemination, review, revision, archiving, and maintenance of presentations, learning modules, quizz...

STFM unveils the National Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum website.

STFM reaffirms importance of behavioral health and care of the family to family medicine education.

(Fam Med 2008;40(10):693-5.) At times there are significant challenges that must be addressed by an organization, and it is important to reaffirm certain basic principles. The Board has had to face one of those challenges. There has always been an awareness of the importance of the provision of care in the context of the family and also the critical nature of behavioral health to the care of ou...

Digital Library 2.0 for Educational Resources

We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perceive to be the shortcomings of existing educational DLs. Along with useful content, social interactions were viewed as important supplements for educational DLs. Such interactions ...

PoPS: Mobile Access to Digital Library Resources

Mobile devices represent new opportunities for accessing digital libraries (DLs) but also pose a number of challenges given the diversity of their hardware and software features. We describe a framework aimed at facilitating the generation of interfaces for access to DL resources from a wide range of mobile devices.