What with the sudden increase in the number of Radiology Quiz competitions in town, I though of writing about some ways that may help the budding radquizist!
We have a great trend in our hospital; we are trained to be FAST(pun intended)!;)
Everyday we have "Case of the Day" on our departmental intranet. The answers are displayed at the end of the day. Then we have monthly long cases and quizes(which were timed). This makes everyone see a lot many more cases in their stipulated residency period, than they would otherwise..
During my residency all of us used to sit together and go through the "teaching files"- TF collection. It was a lot of fun -who gets the diagnosis first? who describes it the best? even who puts the films in the view-box fastest!!!
To those who do not have a good "TF" collection in their institutes, no reason to fret..Plenty of material available on the net. Some useful sites:
http://3s.acr.org/cip/
http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=edu_n&sub=cases
https://www2.rsna.org/timssnet/store/rsna_customsearchaction.cfm?productclass=COD
http://caseoftheday.org/
http://www.radquiz.com/
http://radiopaedia.org/encyclopaedia/quizzes/
http://www.radiologymasterclass.co.uk/
http://www.appliedradiology.com/quizzes/
http://www.radiologyassistant.nl/
http://www.learningradiology.com/quizzes/tocquiz.htm
http://radiologysigns.tumblr.com/quiz
http://www.radrounds.com/notes/Radiology_Cases_and_Images
http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/parent.php3?mode=cow_sorter#pic
http://www.refindia.net/ref/quiz/
And some interesting radiology stories with quintessential human touch from Bhavin Sir's blog...
http://radiologystories.com/
To be FAST has its glamour...Having said that, its not necessarily the best deal for the patient.
To be accurate is more important for the radiologist...And finally radiology cases in actual life are not quiz cases with a single diagnosis, often there is more to it, than what meets the eye.
So, as RR sir wisely says, keep looking...
Spots and quizzess are a great way to standardise exams and make the life of the examiner easy. They are a lousy way to train and test radiologists as one who contributes to patient care.
ReplyDeleteI never tire of saying this that never in real life has anyone ever asked me to make a diagnosis in 3 seconds. On the other hand when someone really wants my opinion, I get a whole lot of clinical information. The question often asked is "What should we do next" - even if the diagnosis is obvious/not obvious.
What we need to test is deep clinical knowledge and the relevance of the radiological findings /diagnosis in the setting of patient care - not illuminated view boxes with 4 examiners glowering over you in a running race.
For this, the examiners need to now clinical radiology.
Do they?
Just read your article on "Objective structured clinical examination in radiology"
ReplyDeleteFor everyone her's the link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890931/