The Educational Resources on Aging (ERA) from the Reynolds Team of the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University is a collection of educational learning objects which provides POGOe users with an array of topics in clinical geriatrics and skills development. Due to its depth of geriatrics and aging topics, this collection is an invaluable addition to the POGOe digital library. Most of the learning objects are modifiable PowerPoint slides and include some pdfs of handouts and articles. The main page is arranged by user (students or residents) and includes a “General Resources” section. Topic areas include basic science courses (e.g. anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology); doctoring courses in the pre-clinical years (e.g. medical interviewing and the physical exam of the older adult); and clinical clerkship topics in geriatrics.

Educators familiar with the Web-CT learning system platform will find navigating through the website quite easy. Those not familiar with Web-CT may want to proceed to the Index section which provides users with a listing of all learning products; better yet is the "search" tab in the top section, which provides word matches for search terms. Try to spend time browsing through the site and the topics before you click on a title of a learning object (clicking a topic header automatically downloads the file into your system and opens it up, which may or may not be what you would want to do).

The ERA also provides useful web links, including the AGS “Geriatrics at Your Fingertips”, as well as the “Fast Facts” collection of palliative care topics from AAHPM.

Please use the following to access the ERA website directly at mycourses.brown.edu:

Username: reynolds.guest

Password: aging

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