Update: I have written a general question bank for Intrinsic Role questions. Click here From ongoing conversations with trainees, I have...

The new OSCER format for RANZCR exams is a certain departure from the traditional viva based format. The structure has moved away from a...

2023 is a big year for radiology trainees and IMGs who will be sitting the RANZCR OSCER exam under the new format. It has been a steep...

You have put in months (years) of study and practice and it is almost time to sit the exams! Here are a few quick tips for polishing off...

When you are in the thick of exam study you become completely immersed - and when you are immersed, sometimes you can lose sight of the...

Motivation is something that everyone struggles with at one stage or another, some more frequently than others. This year in particular...

Preparing for something as mammoth as radiology fellowship exams is no easy task. It takes months, and sometimes years, of dedicated work...

While you are preparing for your radiology viva exams (and indeed for your time as radiologist), you cannot avoid the hot seat. You will...

Remember when you were in high school and you were on study leave - fondly recalled as Stuvac, Swotvac or something of the like. Remember...

Today, I write from a place of vulnerability. I have had a truly intense 24 hours where a family member has been in a serious accident...

Anecdotally, it seems that the e-Film Reading exam has become a harder hurdle to clear over the last few years. It is hard to exactly...

This might be a controversial concept, but I believe that the exams themselves are a bit of a game. Not the traditional sense of course,...

When I sat my exams I considered myself time poor for a few reasons. I had two young kids and I had a significant commute to and from...

It is an odd time in exam preparation when the last group has just sat the exam and received their results. All of a sudden you realise...

After years of hard work and months of dedicated study, exam day eventually arrives. At this stage, you can't really try and learn...

A viva isn't a reporting shift. You don't want to spend ten minutes doing a thorough assessment of the case. You want to stay relevant,...

What do you do when you are in a rut about a particular viva, or subject within a viva? We have all been there. Here are a few practical...

This is a favourite question that I ask candidates when we are practicing chest vivas, but it works well for the other systems as well....

If you are running practice viva cases in the lead-up to exams there is one thing you aren't short of - feedback. But feedback (like case...

When the information presented is not to brief and not too detailed, but just right. This is "The Goldilocks Zone" a turn of phrase I...