This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Submit a response Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Lindberg, D. A. B. Articles by Humphreys, B. L. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Lindberg, D. A. B. Articles by Humphreys, B. L.

"You Have To Be There"

Twenty-five Years of SCAMC/AMIA Symposia

Affiliation of the authors: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Correspondence and reprints: Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894; e-mail: <lindberg{at}nlm.nih.gov>.

Received for publication: 01/11/02; accepted for publication: 03/29/02.

The AMIA Annual Symposium began life as the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) in 1977. Inaugurated as a multidisciplinary meeting with multiple sponsors, the Symposium quickly became a force in the development of the field of medical informatics. The authors summarize the 25-year history of the meeting and its proceedings, drawing on information in the printed programs and proceedings and on the personal recollections of some Symposium organizers and attendees. They also present the results of a study of the extent to which Symposium papers have been cited in the journal literature.