"as soon as information is acquired, is very rapidly replaced by still newer information. Our electrically configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block by block, step-by-step, because instant communication ensures that all factors of the environment and of experience coexist in a state of active interplay."

free resources from RCOG on workplace based learning assessments

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.

" The BEME Collaboration is a group of individuals or institutions who are committed to the promotion of Best Evidence Medical Education through: the dissemination of information which allows medical teachers, institutions and all concerned with medical education to make decisions on the basis of the best evidence available; the production of appropriate systematic reviews of medical education which reflect the best evidence available and meet the needs of the user; and the creation of a culture of best evidence medical education amongst individual teachers, institutions and national bodies."

"the encyclopaedia of informal education exploring informal education, lifelong learning, social pedagogy and social action"

Other resources via London Deanery- inc articles

Teaching on the run, published by Australian Medical Journal - all articles available free of charge

London deanery elearning moduke on clnical teaching and learning

from Deirdre Bonnycastle

This is a website by an emergency medicine physician from Maryland who is interested in teaching how to become effective medical educators. http://www.emrapee.com/episodes/ there is one podcast in particular that deals with how to make podcasts.

Doctors from Puerto Rico who are helping in Hairi shared pictures on Facebook which many think are inappropriate.

renee fountain

steve wheeler et al

most cited paper on education and wikis (over 100 citations) on 27/1/09

blog post comparing different services