MedEdPORTAL Relaunch!

On April 7, 2009, the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) launched the MedEdPORTAL 2.0 repository and Web site (www.aamc.org/mededportal). MedEdPORTAL is a free medical and dental publication service that promotes access to high-quality, peer-reviewed educational teaching and assessment resources online.

While the new MedEdPORTAL Web site may look familiar, the back-end of the system has undergone dramatic improvements. The Web site is now fully integrated with a powerful content and digital asset management system to host resources online. Through major enhancements, the new MedEdPORTAL site provides you with the ease of downloading resources directly from the Web site; allowing 90 percent of MedEdPORTAL’s 1,300 publications to be available for download or by directly linking to external Web sites. The remaining 10 percent of publications will continue to be disseminated by MedEdPORTAL staff due to size limitations or because those publications are assessment tools in which authors have requested protection through a human firewall.

The new MedEdPORTAL Web site also features a robust search engine that will allow you to search for published resources through a greater number of metrics (e.g., the “Find” function searches the published abstract in addition to any text included in the published resource files, such as PowerPoints, Word documents, PDFs, etc.). In addition, the new Web site collects a variety of end-user data that can be used by authors to demonstrate the particular impact and utilization of their published materials.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and to disseminate it to your respective listserves. Please visit the new MedEdPORTAL 2.0 repository Web site at www.aamc.org/mededportal.

Questions? Contact MedEdPORTAL at mededportal@aamc.org.

MedEdPORTAL
Association of American Medical Colleges
2450 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1127
Email: mededportal@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0496
Web: www.aamc.org/mededportal