In my 20 years as a radiologist, I have attended conferences, read radiology books and journals in order to learn and keep up with new information. But what has always puzzled me is the disconnect between how we learn and how we report in real life as radiologists. In conferences, journals and books, people put up images of conditions and we learn to recognise an image. But in reporting, problems don't usually fit an image. We need to know how to bring together various bits of information to solve problems versus recognise an image. A good radiologist is a problem solver not an image recogniser. But how do we learn this ? Learning by doing is the only way to report with confidence.

Dr. Ravi Padmanabhan MBBS, FRANZCR, DDU