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With enhanced longevity, many people in late old age find themselves frail and living at home, often alone. Whilst conceptualisations vary, frailty is often used in clinical practice as a directional term, to refer to older people at particular risk of adverse health outcomes and to organise care. Investigation of the experience of being frail is a complementary and necessary addition to international research endeavours clearly to define, predict and measure frailty.

FRom Tim Senior: a blog I started years ago to help GP teachers use formative assessment tools compiled on http://www.wentwest.com/treat/  I produced this when I worked for WentWest, an Australian GP registrar training organisation (like a UK VTS). The websites are still up and I think the tools are still useful. Many of you from the UK will recognise some of them, but the guides on how to use them are all my own work.

An online tutorial developed by Intute and JISC giving an overview of how to use the web to search for medical resources. It highlights some of the key web sites for medicine including professional organisations, subject gateways, databases, electronic journals and learning and teaching materials.

A helpful YoutTube video giving an overview of bookmarking ont he web and how this can help you organise and annoate web content and then share it with others or keep it private.

EACH is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation which brings together researchers and trainers in the field of communication in healthcare. Its objectives are to facilitate the exchange of ideas and products of teaching and research activities across a network of individuals and institutions in Europe and beyond.

"The Seven Steps are core to patient safety in healthcare organisations. Each guide in the series provides a checklist to help staff to plan their activities and measure patient safety performance. "

There is already significant activity in the area of sharing resources in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. This is typically on a sharing amongst limited discipline communities, around a particular area such as assessment and/or on a semi-commercial basis. The OOER project proposes to open up the process to a wider constituency and encourage sharing more openly, as well as reveal existing good practice in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine in UK HE.