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    Last minute chest viva tips
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 5 min

    Last minute chest viva tips

    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...
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    Levelling up your final exam preparation
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Oct 31, 2020
    • 5 min

    Levelling up your final exam preparation

    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...
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    Finding your own study style
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • May 8, 2020
    • 5 min

    Finding your own study style

    Preparing for something as mammoth as radiology fellowship exams is no easy task. It takes months, and sometimes years, of dedicated work...
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    Dropping a case: seeing the plus side
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Feb 1, 2020
    • 5 min

    Dropping a case: seeing the plus side

    While you are preparing for your radiology viva exams (and indeed for your time as radiologist), you cannot avoid the hot seat. You will...
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    Knowing the 'rules'
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 5 min

    Knowing the 'rules'

    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,...
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    When it's your turn
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Jun 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    When it's your turn

    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...
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    Hacks for assessing chest CT films
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Apr 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Hacks for assessing chest CT films

    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,...
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    What viva are you in?
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Apr 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    What viva are you in?

    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....
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    The Goldilocks Zone
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Apr 13, 2019
    • 5 min

    The Goldilocks Zone

    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...
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    The conundrum of cut film
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    The conundrum of cut film

    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...
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    Talking viva technique
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 4 min

    Talking viva technique

    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....
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    Hierarchy of learning - vivas
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Mar 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Hierarchy of learning - vivas

    There are many ways to prepare for exams - where should you be putting your energy? There is no way of getting around that exam...
    223 views0 comments
    Where's the finding?
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Mar 31, 2019
    • 3 min

    Where's the finding?

    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,...
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    7 tips for tackling exams
    Dr Sally Ayesa
    • Mar 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    7 tips for tackling exams

    This article was initially written and published in RANZCRs Inside News, March 2019. I was asked to write a report of sorts following a...
    835 views0 comments

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