New forms of digital publishing have provided unprecedented opportunities for publication of scholarly works online. The Association of American Medical Colleges has developed MedEdPORTAL to serve as a prestigious publishing venue through which faculty might disseminate their educational works. MedEdPORTAL was designed to promote collaboration and educational scholarship by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed educational materials, knowledge, and solutions.
Publishing within MedEdPORTAL has several benefits for faculty including recognition of peer-reviewed work that may be considered by promotion & tenure committees, useful feedback for enhancement or expansion of the resource, and expanding the audience of potential users
