Dr Sally Ayesa
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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Dr Sally Ayesa
- Nov 1, 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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Dr Sally Ayesa
- May 9, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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