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

When you're choosing an FRCR 2B course, two worries sit underneath the decision. The first: does this actually cover the whole exam, or will I reach the viva and find a subspecialty nobody prepared me for? The second, quieter one: can I afford it? Over the past year, a lot of trainees have raised both with us, and this post is about what we did in response.

What trainees kept telling us

Some conversations were about exams. Some were about confidence. Some were about balancing training, family life, and everything else that comes with becoming a radiologist. But one theme kept surfacing: Revise Radiology is an excellent resource, but it's beyond a lot of trainees' budgets.

We've always believed education is an investment, and that you get out what you put in. But we've also been listening to a fair challenge, that good preparation should be accessible to trainees and non-trainees around the world, not only to those who can comfortably pay. So we spent real time listening, questioning our own assumptions, and rethinking what Revise Radiology should be. The work below is part of the answer.

From 22,000 cases to a focused 2,944

Here's the problem with a large case bank: more is not the same as better. A candidate with limited time doesn't need every case ever made. They need the right cases, arranged so nothing important is missed.

So starting from our full bank of over 22,000 cases, we curated a focused library of 2,944 cases for the new FRCR 2B Mastery Course, organised into three teaching formats: 1,152 viva cases, 1,152 short cases, and 640 spotters for rapid pattern recognition. Together they span 2,777 distinct diagnoses across twelve subspecialties, arranged into 158 teaching packets, with more than 4,600 teaching videos attached so you can watch a case presented and discussed rather than simply read the answer.

The point of the curation was to strip away the noise and leave a set you can work through with confidence that it reflects the real exam. The difficulty mix is deliberate too: it's weighted towards average-difficulty cases, because candidates fail more often on common conditions presented plainly than on rare and exotic ones, with a smaller share of hard cases to stretch stronger candidates.

Checked for complete coverage, with no gaps

A focused library is only trustworthy if you can be sure it's complete. So every case was checked against both the RCR Clinical Radiology curriculum and a composite international blueprint drawn from the FRCR, the American Boards, the RANZCR fellowship, and the European Diploma.

The result is complete coverage with no gaps: 101 of 101 RCR curriculum conditions covered, and 118 of 118 diagnoses on the international blueprint. That's the part that matters most to you as a candidate: not a promise that there are lots of cases, but a checked, condition-by-condition guarantee that the subspecialty you're weakest in is represented, tested, and there to be practised. We've put together a short report explaining exactly what's in the library and how we built it, so you can see the methodology rather than take the claim on trust.

What this means for the course

This curated library is what you'll have access to on the new FRCR 2B Mastery Course, launching later in 2026. It's built to replace the previous FRCR 2B combined subscriptions with something more focused and more clearly mapped to the exam.

If you already hold a 2B combined subscription, you won't be left behind. As part of the transition, the cases on the existing 2B combined course are being replaced with these curated packets, so current subscribers move onto the improved library rather than losing out.

Why we rebuilt it this way

The curation and the accessibility work are two halves of the same idea. Focused content means you spend your limited revision time on what actually matters. Fairer, more accessible pricing means where you train and what you earn don't decide whether you get that preparation. Neither is worth much without the other.

There's more coming as we keep rethinking how the whole thing fits together. But the case library is the foundation, and it's the part we most wanted to get right first.

Registration for the FRCR 2B Mastery Course is opening ahead of its launch later in 2026. Register your interest to be notified first.

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