What it is, and isn’t
What NeuroDash is, and isn’t
Plainly, so you can decide whether it fits how you study. What it is, then where it stops.
Who writes this
Authored in-house by NeuroDash — not board-certified, and not reviewed by an outside specialist. It is educational support for clinical reasoning — not clinical advice, and not a substitute for your own judgment. NeuroDash does not diagnose or treat patients.It is
A clinical-reasoning trainer for the dizzy patient
The eye exam and the disposition call, built around commit-before-rationale practice — for emergency medicine, neurology, medical students, and physiotherapy.
Authored in-house, grounded in cited guidelines
Claims name their source — Kattah 2009 for HINTS, AAO-HNS and the Bárány Society for the rest — so you can check the reasoning rather than trust it.
Maintained in the open
Every change is logged with a date on the What's new page, and corrections are logged the same way.
It isn’t
Not reviewed by an outside specialist
Content is authored in-house. Use your own judgment and primary sources.
Not a CEU course
No credit hours. If you need CEUs, use an accredited provider — this is for the reasoning in between.
Not a substitute for board certification
It supports your study and judgment. It does not replace certification or supervised training.
The method
The evidence behind the method
Retrieval practice
The trainer makes you commit to a call before showing the reasoning. Testing yourself, rather than re-reading material, produces better long-term retention.
Larsen, Butler & Roediger, 2008 (Medical Education)
Spaced review
Cases you get wrong resurface sooner; cases you get right rest longer before coming back. Spacing practice out over time beats a single study session.
Larsen, Butler & Roediger, 2008 (Medical Education)
Simulation-based skill training
Across health professions education, simulation training shows large effects on learners' knowledge and skills compared with no intervention. A VR-mannequin trial of this specific exam found trained physicians far more accurate at 1 and 6 months than lecture-only controls.
Cook et al., 2011 (JAMA); Ursat et al., 2024 (Frontiers in Neurology)
The clinical grounding
The HINTS exam
Head impulse, nystagmus, and test of skew — the three-step bedside exam the trainer teaches, and the pattern (INFARCT) that flags a stroke.
Kattah et al., 2009 (Stroke)
The syndrome-first gate
HINTS only applies to the acute vestibular syndrome — dizzy right now, continuously. TiTrATE is the framework the trainer's gating question is built on.
Newman-Toker & Edlow, 2015 (Neurologic Clinics)
More
More on how the content is made: who builds it, and every shipped change and correction on the What’s new page.