Update#3 - Memorial Day Sale is Live!
RadHQ has partnered with Medality to help promote their Memorial Day sale. This is one of a few times a year, (the other is Black Friday) where you will see massive discounts on this valuable product. I use it for both education and for accruing rapid CME. Original review below:
A few days ago, the team at Medality reached out to me to discuss a partnership. I had never used their product, and didn't really know what it was, so they offered to let me trial it.
What is MRIOnline.com?
Superficially, its an online radiology teaching platform with lots of video content. Despite its name, it offers educational content for all modalities, but a heavy bias towards MRI.
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In addition to video lectures where you watch then earn CME, there are loads of other features listed below:
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After a few hours looking through their site, I can confidently say one thing - the amount of material and options are overwhelming. I still don’t really understand exactly what it offers, but it's a lot.
Superficially, its an online radiology teaching platform with lots of video content. Despite its name, it offers educational content for all modalities, but a heavy bias towards MRI. They cover essentially all subspecialty areas with the most content in Neuro and MSK specialties. List below, sorry nuc med peoples.
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In the above image, all the subspecialty areas are listed on the left, and if you click to explore the content, a pop up menu appears with a more focused breakdown of the content. The small numbers in parenthesis correspond to the number of small videos in that topical area. Let’s select “Pancreas”
The pancreas section is well organized into a single main topic that's called a “course.” (There are multiple kinds of courses with different names which can be confusing). As seen in the image below, if you complete the entire course you would cover a large amount of material and earn 2.75 hours of CME credit.
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Some of the videos are case review (the ones with the little box icon) and some of the videos are more typical lecture format (the ones with the person speaking icon).
Example of a video case review with annotations on the screen:
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Example of a more didactic lecture where Dr. Pomeranz uses a drawing tool to make notes. (This reminds me of the old overhead projectors they used to use at school)
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All of the videos are bite sized and pretty easily digestible. You can pick and chose which ones you want to listen to or you can watch the course all the way through. If you were reading a case with a specific pancreatic mass but wanted to review that topic, you could chose the area of concern, watch the video and even get some CME. In this regard, its similar to other on-the-go CME products like StatDx. It’s a great idea, but I am not sure how many people will use it like this.
Overall, the teaching and video quality is pretty good.
Dr. Pomeranz is responsible for a large majority of the MSK and a lot of Neuro material. He is obviously a dedicated teacher and a talented radiologist. I have only watched 0.1% of the available content and there is some variability in the teaching quality, but overall its a solid offering. They have recruited other great teachers in several areas. Some of the faculty are not as prestigious and sometimes the video quality is suboptimal. The case based reviews tend to be a little long-winded for my liking but overall, based on my small sample review, they do a great job.
I took a 12 case hip mastery test where you are shown a case then answer a question. To be honest, I wasn't a fan. Some of the questions were well done, but many questions were odd/poorly conceived and the discussion of the case was just a copy and paste of a dictation, no real discussion at all. It did give me about 2.5hrs worth of CME though. Over time I'd like to see them improve these.
I'd recommend sampling the content yourself with their 7 day trial - available here: Medality
How does CME work?
As you progress through the content, you earn CME credit. In the top right of the menu, they have a really neat CME tracker which shows how many hours of CME you have earned.
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Clicking on the CME tracker will take you to a page where you can see your progress, claim CME and print off certificates. The CME is broken down into a few different categories based on whether it is questions based or video review based.
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The platform also features a variety of other offerings, some are free but require an account to access:
- Noon Conference - free weekly lecture - variety of topics, some really great lectures here. This is a free resource. No CME gained but great info. To access you need to sign up for a free account. I haven't tried this yet, but they have a database of older lectures and the few that I have reviewed are well done.
- Case of the week - free weekly case - no CME gained - nice format.
- Mini Fellowships - In addition to all of the content included with your original membership, for an additional fee, they offer “Mini- Fellowships” which cost between $1300 and $4000. Each mini-fellowship has a few options, some include personal attention from the attending physician. I haven’t had time to dig into these yet.
- Other live conferences - at additional cost. Ex: Below is an image of an upcoming MSK conference.
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Pricing:
Its not cheap, but I’d argue that its the most comprehensive platform of online radiology video content available. Add the ability to claim CME and I actually think its competitively priced. A basic membership is ~$1200 a year for essentially unlimited CME. If you enjoy learning from videos instead of reading articles, then it's worth a trial run.
That's the end of this mini review - hope it helps. If you are interested in doing the free trial or signing up please use the link below, it's an affiliate link and helps offset my costs to run RadHQ.net
(The link above is one of those affiliate links, I if anyone signs up the RadHQ.net site will get a small commission,)