I read on Medlib this morning:
"IVIMEDS and HEAL Collaborate to Improve Access to Digital Medical Education
Resources
The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) and the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) have announced the start of a close collaboration. The two not-for-profit organizations will make portions of their holdings available to each other using Web Services with an interoperable metadata application profile. Once these Web Services are in place, HEAL users will be able to discover resources assembled or created by IVIMEDS, such as its collection of virtual patients and shareable content objects (SCOs). Conversely, IVIMEDS users can find and retrieve assets assembled by HEAL, including 20,000 images, animations, and videoclips."

I decided to check out HEAL and IVIMEDS.

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) http://www.healcentral.org

HEAL is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources (images, videoclips, audioclips, animations, web pages, presentations, PDFs). It was established in 2000 as a joint effort of three health sciences institutions in the United States: the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Heal is free, but users must register to use it. Currently there are over 19,000 resources within HEAL which you can conduct a search or browse by subject or by collection. Some areas covered are dermatology, ObGyn, neuroanatomy, neurology, pathology, biochemistry, cardiology, and multi language patient education information. Quick search or advanced search are probably the easiest and best ways to search the collection. Browse by subject allows the user to browse the database by MeSH terms. However, not all items in the database have MeSH terms assigned therefore these items are not reflected in their Browse view. Browse by collection allows users to browse by the collection contributor, however, browsing by affiliate collection does not reflect those items contributed by individuals.

Licensing:
"HEAL repository/referatory is licensed for free use, reproduction, and modification by registered users of HEAL according to the terms of the Creative Commons license associated with that resource. See the Detailed View for that resource, or refer to the XML manifest that is downloaded with the resource via the Download Folder. You do not need to request permission to use the resource in the licensed manner. To request additional uses for any resource, outside the bounds of the Creative Commons license, please contact the copyright holder(s) of the resource directly. The copyright holder(s) is/are listed on the Detailed View for each resource. Ownership of the resource remains with the copyright holder(s). "


The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMED) http://www.ivimeds.org/

The IVIMED "is a worldwide partnership of leading edge medical schools and institutions working to develop the full potential of e-learning across the continuum of medical education. The aim of the project is to provide an effective means of sharing digital learning resources among partner institutions."

It is based in Scotland and has 37 partner institutions, including medical schools, postgraduate organisations and other medical education organizations. Currently IVIMEDS partnership is only available to university medical schools and other medical organizations. Membership is not currently available to individual undergraduate students or qualified doctors.

Right now it appears to be still in the planning stages.