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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

There is no way of avoiding the fact that the viva exam is presented on films, with selected slices only and no ability to scroll. It...

You would have heard it time and time again over the course of your medical training to date - exam technique is the key to success....

There are many ways to prepare for exams - where should you be putting your energy? There is no way of getting around that exam...

What do you do when you can't find the problem? It is the moment in a viva where your blood runs cold. You have looked at the films once,...

This article was initially written and published in RANZCRs Inside News, March 2019. I was asked to write a report of sorts following a...