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

If you're preparing for the FRCR 2B, you already know how it feels. There's the quiet worry that you haven't seen every condition that might come up. And there's a separate, harder worry: that even when you recognise something, you might not present it well enough under the pressure of the viva. Knowing your radiology and the technique of convincingly showing you know are two different things, and the gap between them is where good candidates come unstuck.

Closing that gap is what the 2B Mastery Course is built to do. And it's why I wanted Dr Devpriyo Pal leading it.

Why the right person to lead matters

A 2B course lives or dies on its teaching. You can assemble the best case library in the world, but if the person guiding you through it can't make difficult material clear under pressure, you're left doing the hard part alone, which is exactly the position too many candidates find themselves in.

Dev and I first got to know each other when he joined the Revise Radiology 2B combined course while preparing for the exam himself. Even then, working with us to create teaching posts and spotters, it was completely clear that here was someone who genuinely loves imparting knowledge. You could see it in the care he put into every single post.

Who Dev is

He's a fellowship-trained musculoskeletal and spinal radiologist and a prolific academic, with reviews in Radiographics, Cancers, Skeletal Radiology, and Clinical Radiology, a book chapter with the American Roentgen Ray Society, and editorial and committee roles with the ESSR and Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology. He teaches at every level, from medical students to senior registrars, has already served as faculty for us, and has built a radiology education following of more than 140,000, because he's so good at making difficult things clear.

What runs through all of it is a way of teaching that turns complicated material into something structured and learnable: the checklist-based, demystifying approach that has defined his published work. That is precisely the instinct a candidate needs guiding them through the 2B.

What it means for you

The 2B Mastery Course launches this autumn, replacing our current 2B combined course, and it's designed around the two worries every candidate carries. The curated, curriculum-complete case library addresses the first, the confidence that you've seen a case of everything likely to come up. Deliberate viva practice addresses the second, the technique of presenting clearly under pressure.

With Dev leading it, you get someone who understands both halves of the challenge and knows how to take you through them, so that you walk into the exam having seen the cases and knowing how to present them.

That's the whole aim: not just to show you images, but to close the gap between what you know and what you can demonstrate on the day.

If you're preparing for your next sitting, explore the FRCR 2B Mastery Course and see how it's built to prepare you for both halves of the exam.

Want the fuller picture of how we rebuilt 2B preparation? Read the longer article on coverage and technique.

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

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