PATSy addresses several major challenges currently faced by educators and students in the clinical professions and in post-graduate special-education training courses.

• On-demand access to patients or to people with specific learningimpairments during professional training
• On-demand rehearsal opportunities before engaging in 'live' assessmentsituations
• Opportunity for private and extended practise
• PATSy as a reference source for consultation
• PATSy as an archive for case-based research
• PATSy as a research tool in studying diagnostic reasoning

Special Features

Logging facility: PATSy can log user interactions - the student or lecturer can track which tests were accessed and their order of access by the student, together with the conclusions drawn by the student. This can form the basis for a tutorial or supervision.

User-friendly administration: Contributors of case data have access to a user-friendly interface for data entry which reduces the cost of installing new material on PATSy.

Education support: PATSy provides tutorial questions for most cases and can be used to assess students' diagnostic skills. Different learning objectives can be accommodated

PATSy's Ethos

PATSy operates as a non-profit resource available to academic and professional communities. Subscription fees support the costs linked with the installation of new cases, technical maintenance (updating of web-software, equipment replacement), subsidising PATSy training workshops and other user-benefits.

Contact Details

Subscriptions

Dr. Richard Cox
School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences
University of Sussex, BN1 9QH, UK
Email: richard@patsy.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 678605
Fax: +44 (0) 1273 671320

Contributing case data

Dr. Carmel Lum
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Cambridge, CB2 3EB, UK
Email: carmel@patsy.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 333550
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 333564