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Welcome to the Health Sciences Library page for medical education. We are here to assist you in getting the help you need with library resources, instruction, searches, and research support. Appointments are available with a Research and Instruction Services librarian Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00 by calling 631-444-3099. We look forward to hearing from you.

December 5, 2011 – Stony Brook University School of Medicine has been granted continued full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree in the U.S. and Canada. An LCME survey team, which completed a site visit to the School of Medicine in April 2011, voted this fall for full reaccreditation and recognized Stony Brook with five commendations representing the School’s “institutional strengths.”

Recently released, the 2014 New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report is an annual report that provides insights into emerging trends in technology use in higher education. The research paper is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium and  EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI).

Here is a look at the upcoming technologies from the report:
Near-term Horizon (within the next 12 months)
Mobile Apps
Tablet Computing
Mid-term Horizon (two to three years out)
Game-based learning
Learning analytics
Far-term Horizon (four to five years away)
Gesture based computing
The Internet of things