Part 3 of a series. New here? This session works on its own, though background from Parts 1 and 2 is available if you’d like more context.

In Part 2, we introduced the memory palace, also known as the method of loci, as a visualization based alternative to shorthand. This 1-hour performance-based course goes in more detail, with advanced techniques and hands on practice for beginners.

Not a note-taker? This one’s for you.
If shorthand hasn’t clicked, or note-taking during consecutive interpreting feels more distracting than helpful, the memory palace offers a real alternative. Instead of writing anything down, you train your visuospatial memory to hold and retrieve complex utterances, sequences, and terminology through the power of visualization.

By the end of this training, you will:

• Create a memory palace.
• Compare and contrast rote memorization and the memory palace technique.
• Test your memory skills using different techniques.
• Practice skills learned during the course using interpreting skills exercises based on medical encounters.

• Advice from experts on how to create a successful memory palace
• Tips for how to optimize the memory palace technique for medical interpreting.
• Advanced techniques for expanding your memory palace as you continue to develop the skill.