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2019: Best Of Radsresident.com

2019

It’s now the new year, so it’s time to look back at what happened in 2019. And, last year there was no shortage of events that affect radiology training and residents. Therefore, I figured what better time than now to look at the most popular articles from 2019. Moreover, there’s lots of great information to help radiology applicants, residents, fellows, and early attendings alike. And, I don’t want you missing out. So, here is a list of links for the most popular articles written in 2019 and another list with links to the most popular articles of all time in the year 2019! Read through what you didn’t have time to read the last time! Enjoy!!!

Most Popular Articles Of 2019

What Is The Best Specialty For A Lazy Radiologist?

What Radiology And IR/DR Programs Don’t Tell Applicants About Interventional Radiology!

Hard Proof That The Radiology Core Examination Does Not Work! Need We Say More?

How To Pick Up Speed In Radiology

Five Dictation Styles To Avoid At Your Own Peril!

Why Do Radiologists Overall Have A High Net Worth?

I Didn’t Match In Radiology! What Do I Do?

The Radiology Job Market Cycle: Don’t Enter At The Bottom!

Pregnancy In Radiology Residency

What It’s Really Like To Be Pregnant During Radiology Residency!

 

 

Most Popular Articles Of All Time

How Much Does It Take To Start A Radiology Imaging Center?

How Much Work Is Too Much For A Radiologist? (Think RVUs!)

How To Create A Killer Radiology Personal Statement

How to Choose a Radiology Fellowship

Top Traits Of Great Radiologists (They Might Not Be What You Expect!)

The Post Interview Second Look – Is It Worth My Time?

What Is The Best Specialty For A Lazy Radiologist?

The Mega Five: The Ultimate Resources For The First-Year Radiology Resident

Up To Date Book Reviews For The Radiology Core Examination

2018-2019 More Competitive For Radiology? A Midyear Perspective

 

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Radsresident.com- Happy 2nd Year Birthday!!!

It’s now been two years of radsresident.com weekly articles, posts, and ask the residency director questions. In total, we have almost 200 posts (194 to be exact!) on all sorts of topics dedicated to radiology residency. And, it seems that my readers want more! Moreover, the site continues to grow significantly from its humble beginnings, and its viewership had almost quadrupled from the months when it first started.

So, let’s talk about a bit about what has been going on for the past year or so. To do that, I will discuss the three segments of viewers that take an interest in this website. Overall, they are evenly divided. To categorize them, I would separate the viewers of radsresident.com into those interested in radiology residency application advice, general residency advice, and finally, post-residency advice. Within each group, the readers gravitate to some of the more popular resources on radsresident.com. And, I will show you some of the articles on each of these topics as I list the most popular posts on this website. Additionally, we will talk about some of the plans for the up and coming year and where we are heading.

Let’s start by showing you what articles have been the most popular over the course of the past year and for all-time. Here are the pieces that the most people find helpful (and entertaining I hope!) After the title, you will see that I categorize each into one of the three segments above.

Most Popular Posts Over The Past Year

  1. How Much Work Is Too Much For A Radiologist? (Think RVUs!) – Post-residency advice
  2. Up To Date Book Reviews For The Radiology Core Exam – Residency advice
  3. How To Create A Killer Radiology Personal Statement – Application advice
  4. Top Traits Of Great Radiologists (They Might Not Be What You Expect!) – Residency advice
  5. A Common Radiology Applicant USMLE Misconception – Application advice
  6. How To Choose A Radiology Fellowship – Post-residency advice
  7. Radiology Private Practice Versus Other Career Pathways- Is It Worth “The Extra Money”? – Post-residency advice
  8. What To Look For In A Radiology Residency? – Application advice
  9. Five Reasons Why The First Year Of Radiology Residency Can Be The Most Difficult – Residency advice
  10. How To Make A Good Impression As First Year Radiology Resident – Residency advice

Most Popular Articles Of All Time

  1. How Much Work Is Too Much For A Radiologist? (Think RVUs!) – Post-residency advice
  2. Up To Date Book Reviews For The Radiology Core Exam – Residency advice
  3. Top Traits Of Great Radiologists (They Might Not Be What You Expect!) – Residency advice
  4. How To Choose A Radiology Fellowship – Post-residency advice
  5. A Common Radiology Applicant USMLE Misconception – Application advice
  6. Radiology Private Practice Versus Other Career Pathways- Is It Worth “The Extra Money”? – Post-residency advice
  7. Radiology Residency And The SOAP Match – Application advice
  8. How To Make A Good Impression As First Year Radiology Resident – Residency advice
  9. The Struggling Radiology Resident– Residency advice
  10. What To Look For In A Radiology Residency? – Application advice

So, you may notice that the viewership is pretty much evenly divided among the segments and is broad regarding radiology residency related interests. Therefore, I will continue to write articles with these factors in mind.

Population Using Radsresident.com

How are you folks arriving at the posts and articles on this website?

  1. Organic search (Google, etc.) – 69%  of readers
  2. Direct (typing in radsresident.com) – 17% of readers
  3. Social (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) – 14% of readers
  4. Referral (Links and websites)-  2% of readers

From where are my readers?

  1. The United States – 65%
  2. India – 8%
  3. Canada- 2.5%
  4. United Kingdom – 1.9%
  5. Malaysia- 1.25%
  6. Australia – 1.24%
  7. Philippines – 1.18%
  8. Pakistan – 1.05%
  9. Saudi Arabia – 1.01%
  10. Brazil – 0.86%

How many individual users have frequented the website over the entire past year? (based on Google analytics)

59,348 individual users (22,084 the previous year)

129,902 page views (around 55,000 the previous year)

What Else Has Happened Over The Past Year?

In addition to the useful articles and posts, we have continued to give you the case of the week. I hope you are enjoying these cases. Moreover, you may have noticed updates and edits on many of my older articles to make them easier to read and access.

More recently, I have become a Doximity Author. Over the next several months, you may notice many of these and new articles featured on the website.

Finally, I am still in the process of editing my new ebook called The New Attending Physician Guidebook as you can see in the cover below. This ebook should be out for release in several weeks to a month on Amazon.com. I will update you all on the official release date when I know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Else To Expect Over The Course Of The Next Year On Radsresident.com?

To continually improve and make this website as helpful as I can to you, the readers, you may notice a few changes here and there. First of all, over the next several months you may begin to see fewer Wednesday posts and newsletter emails.  Instead of a weekly feature on all Wednesday evenings, we will dedicate Wednesdays evenings to sponsored posts, guest posts, ask the residency director questions, Doximity authored posts, and special event posts only. I am doing this to devote more time to maintenance of the website since it has grown substantially over the past two years (it has become a big job having close to 200 posts!)

However, I will continue to post regularly scheduled articles every Sunday as well as the weekly e-newsletter on this day. Additionally, I will still post the case of the week on Sundays on the e-newsletter, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Like before, I will continue to publish the case of the week answers to the website each Wednesday evening.

Lastly, I want to express my appreciation to all of you for utilizing this website as you have been doing over the past year. To continue to do that, you can continue to support this website by buying books through amazon.com, signing up for grammarly.com, and clicking on my reputable sponsors/partners including Contract Diagnostics, The Disability Doc, Residency Swap.org, and Splash Financial. By continuing to click on these links, and signing up for these services, you help to fund this website and provide the opportunity for me to keep giving you the great content you have come to expect. Once again, thank you to all my readers for a fantastic year!

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Ten Thousand Page Views- The Radsresident Experience

The Radsresident Idea

Sometimes the best ideas come about in the most mundane ways. I remember an uneventful Saturday in the middle of September when I sat down and began to surf the internet. I started to read about financial topics and happened upon a website called the Financial Samurai, a website dedicated to passive income. Most importantly, at the top of the page, there was an article called How To Start Your Own Blog. And so, it got me thinking… I haven’t really seen much organized accurate information on the web dedicated to the day to day issues of the radiology resident. Most sites were dedicated to medical students and board certified radiologists interested in radiology topics, but the radiology resident caught in the middle seemed to be skipped over. That being said, there were a few scattered helpful radiology residency related articles and forums on websites such as Aunt Minnie and Medscape, but it was a really a sparsely covered subject. And much of the information was not always reliable and accurate, not really personalized to the individual radiology resident, and was very technical and dry.

In addition, I always wanted to create a website. And, with all the valuable information I have learned as associate residency director over the past 7 years or so, I thought I could really contribute to the body of knowledge of the unappreciated radiology resident. I would target the day-to-day information that radiology residents, students interested in radiology, and others involved in the radiology residency process need and want to know. So these were the humble origins of this blog/website.

From the beginning of the idea for the radsresident website, I thought it would take a very long time to get viewers to the website and was expecting a long slog. To my surprise, in a little over a month and a half, we have already reached 10000 page views! So, why not write an article about what I have learned about my initial experiences, what I think it means for my loyal viewers, and what are some of the exciting changes to happen in the upcoming months?

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