This paper reports on the 1942 founding meeting of the accrediting agency for U.S. and Canadian medical education programs, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the American Medical Association. The original statement regarding the social responsibility of medical education is applied to…

Because there are no universal standards for educational technology, curricular materials in medical education cannot be easily managed, reused, or shared with other educators and institutions. A standardized, object-oriented architecture is needed to facilitate these processes. The Instructional Management Systems specification, which has emerged…