for subsequent observation by review panels. Through distance learning and individualized laboratory work, MCG allows remote medical professionals to participate in classes without traveling. This is important to Georgia hospitals because state law requires a medical technologist to be on duty on the hospital premises at all times. Cameras in classrooms at both remote and primary sites capture and transmit images across special cabling. Instructors provide personal attention by scheduling time after lectures or answering toll-free telephone calls. Video communications foster personal interactivity between students and promote competition between groups of students at remote sites; as little as half a given class may participate at the primary site. State and federal funding has furnished each facility with recorders, motion cameras, auxiliary cameras, and graphics cameras. The graphics cameras provide whiteboard and transparency projection capabilities, and record live or still graphics for broadcast. Users control the video system, audio system, and the codec (including camera pan, tilt, zoom, and focus functions, as well as transmission of motion and still video) with a touch-screen control panel. Using wireless microphone systems with lavaliere lapel microphone and separate clip-on transmitters, a receiving unit, and an antenna, presenters move freely within classrooms. MCG leverages a sophisticated network of terrestrial lines, satellite dishes, and microwave and cable systems to examine real-time images through viewers that interoperate with microcameras and to broadcast live, real-time, interactive health programming from the MCG campus to distance learning facilities throughout the state. The State of Georgia worked with five LECs, AT&T, and Sprint to bridge service boundaries, and required vendors to provide an automated scheduling system to manage the system. Instructors provide schedules to DOAS, which programs the Case Profiles system to connect sites at set times. The state also required vendors to pr