He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Office of Educational Research and Development in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. His research has been mainly in the areas of performance assessment, specialty choice, and distance learning. In 1996 he started an electronic journal, Medical Education Online, which has grown to be a well-established journal in the field. His other major interest is promoting open-access publishing. He can be reached at dsolomon@msu.edu.