Undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education each have their own particular needs, and no single educational technic can suffice for prompt delivery of the requisite information at all levels. Even within the respective levels of medical education there are differing needs, requiring different approaches for their solution. A real problem involves getting the available medical information quickly to those who need it most: the practicing physician and allied health personnel. The problem is or can be particularly serious in many rural and semirural areas, and in community hospitals that may be relatively isolated from the mainstream of medical advances.Beyond . . .