1. Family Medicine Digital Resources Library
Richard P. Usatine, MD, Editor-in-chief
Jacob Reider, MD, Project Coordinator
Sandra K. Burge, PhD, Associate Editor
Traci Nolte – STFM staff
Dave Ross - Programmer

2. FMDRL History
June First National Library of Medicine (NLM) proposal submitted
FMDRL pilot at UW
NLM grant resubmitted in August 2004
3 year NLM grant started October 2004
May of 2005, FMDRL went live online for STFM members at the Annual Spring Conference in New Orleans.

3. FMDRL Mission
To support and enhance the sharing and collaborative development of educational resources among family medicine educators through a Digital Library that includes resources for all levels of family medicine education.

4. FMDRL – Software Functions
Search
Browse
Upload
Download
Review & Evaluate
Listserv
Wiki

5. FMDRL today 720 resources Conference Materials (548)
Resource to Share (91)
Peer Reviewed Resource (65)
Work In Progress (16)

6. Type of material Article (15) Book and chapters (5)
   Clerkship Syllabus (1)
   Computer and Multimedia (34)
   Course Syllabus (11)
   Evaluation Materials (16)
   Lecture Handout (83)
   Monograph (3)
   PowerPoint Lecture (293)
   Pocket Card (3)
   Standardized Patient or OSCE Case (2)
   Web site URL (7)

7. Learner type Medical Student, First-year (78)
   Medical Student, Second-year (81)
   Medical Student, Third-year (124)
   Medical Student, Fourth-year (127)
   Resident (235)
   Fellow/Graduate Student (158)
   Faculty/CME (320)
   Other Health Professionals (175)
   Patient (31)
   College Student (25)

8. End-users – our membership
"FMDRL is the most important new development in family medicine education. It is the future of educational scholarship and collaboration for our discipline." —John Frey, MD
" I think this digital library is the coolest thing in family medicine that I have seen in a long time." —John Bachman, MD

9. Peer Review Process The Group is determined by the author/submitter
The Group editor chooses 2 reviewers
FMDRL alerts those reviewers by in the same message that contains material for review
The reviewers are required to turn around the review in 4 weeks, and use the FMDRL reviewer form
The Group editor makes a determination of acceptance, revise and resubmit or rejection
This goes to the editor-in-chief for final review before the goes to the author