Kaizen Education vs Barkley’s Brain Boosters

The Kaizen training platform, developed by CCTS Informatics, is based on the philosophy of continual improvement and is designed to enhance education through a competitive learning format. Developed as an innovative online quiz game, the aim is to provide a fun and flexible way to learn new competencies. As part of the popular gamification trend, the desired result is for students to learn and retain more information. The innovative platform is helping investigators: • Meet NIH requirements of formal training in Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency (R2T). • Reinforce competencies in good clinical practice (GCP). • Retain knowledge in the use of clinical and translational research tools. • Prepare for clinical board exams. • Strengthen or learn new competencies in the UAB Nursing program.

Barkley’s Brain Boosters is an interactive game-style teaching tool that provides nurse practitioner students and certified NPs a new way to review content, testing their skills, expanding their knowledge, and developing effective study habits to help them achieve mastery in their nurse practitioner specialty. Each specialty features hundreds of questions in multiple formats, allowing users to interact with different levels of learning. FEATURES Clinical domains: Reinforce your knowledge in your clinical specialty: Adult Gerontology Primary Care, Adult-Gerontology Acute Cure, Pediatric Primary Care, Psychiatric Mental Health, Family Medicine, Women’s Health Care, or Emergency Medicine. Performance tracking: Earn special badges and achievements as you track your progress and work toward mastery. You’ll strengthen your clinical reasoning skills and gain insight into your growth across a wide range of topics Key subject areas: Master the essential clinical topics such as respiratory disorders, obstetrics, cardiovascular disorders, psychobehavioral conditions, neurological disorders, dermatologic conditions, HEENT, and more! Differentiated assessment: Move through challenging knowledge activities to push your thinking at every level. You’ll sharpen critical thinking, improve knowledge application, strengthen diagnostic interpretation, and build faster concept recognition as you progress Practice: Build confidence and stronger clinical reasoning skills and recall through diverse question formats including matrix matching, rank order, multiple choice, free answer, and fill-in-the blank to strengthen clinical reasoning. Continuous learning: Access evidence-based, clinically developed content available offline so you can learn anytime, anywhere.