PHOENIX: Using eye-tracking glasses, a professor has developed a new method to determine how novice medical students learn compared to more experienced medical professionals.
“Many traditional assessment strategies in medical education rely on tabulating learners’ scores in order to obtain grades. In the real world, medical learners are faced with the need to make many decisions in a short time period, which increases their cognitive load and puts a strain on working memory. We have shown that we can now measure cognitive load in an unobtrusive way during medical assessments,” said . . .