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China and other areas of the planet share the unfortunate reality that their rural populations have limited or no access to specialty health care personnel, expertise or facilities. A simple, cost-effective web-based Continuing Medical Education program is presented that allows even some of the most remote areas of China virtual access to medical information, medical specialists and teams of medical consultants, regardless of their location. The proposed project suggests a grassroots approach in improving widespread medical education using the existing telecommunication infrastructure, with minimal equipment requirements that would act as a backup to future systems. For the purposes of this paper, the presented system is termed WebMEd (Web- based Medical Education) and hopefully will be considered for immediate implementation as a feasibility study for future satellite based systems.