This article is adapted from a post in Dr Koshy Jacob's "Building Revise Radiology in Public" series on LinkedIn.

If your radiology study happens in panicked sprints, a few intense months before each exam followed by a long quiet stretch where you drift, you're not doing it wrong. That's how most preparation is designed to work. But it's worth asking whether it's serving you, because radiology training doesn't actually work that way.

The problem with cramming towards exam dates

We ran Revise Radiology as a not-for-profit for several years, and for most of that time the model had a fundamental flaw. We only really mattered to candidates when exams were looming. People signed up under pressure, used the platform intensively for a few months, passed, and left.

I don't blame anyone for that. It's exactly how the model was designed. But it quietly worked against the trainee.

Radiology training is a three-to-five-year journey, not a series of sprints towards exam dates. The skills that make a great radiologist, pattern recognition, systematic reporting, clinical reasoning, take years to build. They don't come from months of cramming. A model that only engages you near exam season leaves the largest part of your development unsupported.

A harder question

So we asked ourselves a harder question. What would it look like to build something genuinely useful from the first day of training to the last?

The answer wasn't a tweak to pricing. It was a different relationship with the people we serve, built around three ideas.

Year-round access, without the pressure to buy

The first is a Core membership that gives every trainee access to everything: more than 27,000 imaging cases, over 15,000 questions, AI-assisted learning, and on-demand webinars. No exam date required. No pressure to buy under deadline stress. At under £50 per month, it's designed to be a place you come back to throughout training, not somewhere you visit only in the final weeks.

That's the shift. Instead of a resource you rent in a panic, it becomes part of how you build the skill steadily, the way the skill is actually built.

Studying that feels like saving, not spending

The second idea is a points system that rewards engagement. Every question you answer earns Revise Points, redeemable against the cost of courses. The more you study, the less your next course costs.

We wanted studying to feel like saving rather than spending, so that consistent effort through the quiet months is recognised rather than wasted. It also nudges the behaviour that helps you most: regular practice, not last-minute volume.

Access that doesn't depend on geography

The third is a commitment to global access. We've built preferential pricing based on World Bank income classifications, so that where you happen to train is never the barrier to good preparation. Strong candidates exist everywhere, and cost shouldn't decide who gets a fair shot at the exam.

Why this matters for you

Put together, these change what the platform is for. It stops being something that matters only when an exam is close and becomes something that supports the whole arc of your training: steady skill-building, effort that lowers the cost of what comes next, and access regardless of where you are in the world.

If you're early in training, that means you can start building the right habits now, cheaply, without waiting for exam panic to force your hand. If you're close to a sitting, it means the intensive work you do connects to everything before and after it.

Explore Core membership and see everything included, from the case bank to AI-assisted learning, for under £50 a month.

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Originally shared by Dr Koshy Jacob on LinkedIn. Follow the series there