PALMs: Perceptual and Adaptive Learning Modules
Research-proven techniques from Cognitive Science that
address training clinical pattern recognition.
Our Perceptual and Adaptive Learning Modules™ (PALMs) offer systematic ways of teaching pattern recognition, and our Perceptual-Adaptive Courseware™ (PAC) provides a transformative approach to whole courses by adaptively integrating conventional instruction with effective interactive learning.
We have developed uniquely effective learning software using perceptual and adaptive learning techniques that can be applied to almost any learning domain, based on 20 years of scientific research in laboratories at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania.
Insight Learning Technology has been funded by the US Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Defense, and the US Department of Education's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and has been the subject of much press coverage, including articles by the New York Times, New Scientist magazine, and CBS News - The Early Show.
Learning to interpret signs, symptoms, and clinical test results is a central goal of medical education. Unfortunately, current didactic approaches, using books, videos, lectures, and note-taking, are not effective ways to develop these pattern-recognition skills.
Now, for the first time, highly effective and efficient systematic ways of teaching clinical pattern recognition are available: