S2E2 - Brain Training, Pill Testing, and Medical Students

The Psych Review

It's February and the second episode of season two sees Dave move internationally to review the how attention is affected by brain training, Shakira move towards the college to discuss their position on pill testing, and Mazz move back in time to revisit experiences of student and teacher assessments in medical school.
The articles covered in this month's episode are:
- Dave: Savulich, G., Thorp, E., Piercy, T., Peterson, K. A., Pickard, J. D., & Sahakian, B. J. (2019). Improvements in attention following cognitive training with the novel'Decoder'game on an iPad. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 13, 2.
- Shakira: https://www.ranzcp.org/news-policy/news/ranzcp-supports-the-introduction-of-pill-testing-t
- Mazz: Looi, J, Anderson, K. (2018). Between SET and ASP: balancing the scales of student evaluation of teaching (SET) and teachers' assessments of student performance (ASP) for medical school education in psychiatry. Australasian Psychiatry, 26(6), 659-661. DOI: 10.1177
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