Open-Source Approach to Professional Education

Within the technology sector, industry heavyweights including Sun, Oracle, and IBM support the highly collaborative Open Source Initiative, which grew into Linux, a global open source operating system. IBM alone has pledged to spend $1 billion this year pushing open source, particularly Linux. Beyond Linux, a wide range of open-source software is available, and new projects are being started all the time.

So, if the leading and most competitive technology companies can find productive and transparent protocols to collaborate, why can’t the same principles apply to professional medical education? This is the question posed by Frank Britt, president and CEO, M|C Holding Corp., the owner of Pri-Med. Pri-Med is a leading provider of professional education solutions to a community of more than 235,000 primary care clinicians.