Radiology Masters

Medical tutorials and realtime interactive screencasts

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August 28, 2019 Revenue growth

We continued to run screencasts every 2 weeks and all have been profitable. Long tail profit is also starting to come from resale of older episodes for replays.

TODO: This feature is not well advertised and right now only the mailing list (~520 members) are receiving notice of replays.

At the end of Series 1 it is intended to compile replays into a box set.

July 31, 2019 First paying customers

So we finally launched the paid screencast platform and it has been an instant success.

  • We ran a free episode which attracted 393 sign-ups of which 204 attended
  • This allowed us to gather a well targeted mailing list quickly (MailerLite)

Episode 2 was the first paid and attracted 112 customers - we gave away quite a few free places and heavily discounted (40%)

June 4, 2019 Prototyped Radiology Masters LIVE screencasts

We decided to launch a new product πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Radiology Masters LIVE

Replicating the radiology exam viva experience can be really difficult remotely but we've managed to do it using the following stack prototype.

  • Crowdcast.io - users share their screen whilst presenting
  • Pacsbin.com - to host the DICOM cases which users view
  • Airtable Forms - to take sign ups to volunteer to be examined

The coaching of users on how to share screen (because Crowdcast is browser based) is a little tricky but let's see how it goes.

We aim to start charging for these screencasts and have launched a survey on pricing.

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May 2019 Rebuilt Radiology Masters using 11ty

Jekyll was proving a bit slow on the builds and I also had the intention of moving Radiology Masters towards a headless CMS rather than a markdown based platform.

This is mostly to handle easier updating of entries, allow repurposing to other media sources and also to prevent the annoying file sync issues which were arising with our bespoke backend.

Rebuilding with 11ty was mostly a dream although it's pretty barebones.

The feeling of knowing that the site is now ready and equipped for headless CMS even though currently it still builds from Markdown files is comforting.

And... build times are really fast!

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April 29, 2019 Tested UX using Hotjar

Hotjar.com is a brilliant tool for usability testing and user journey mapping.

It revealed a number of things people find confusing about Radiology Masters which over a couple of weeks of testing and iterating I have been able to crush.

The big remaining one (shock to me) is that people don't really get the swipe to scroll horizontal menu on mobile. I say this because not many click on far right options.

This will be a bigger job to change but it is on my TODO list to rewrite the header navigation to be a simple popover full screen menu on mobile.

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April 1, 2019 50 live video tutorial cases

https://radiologymasters.com is a video tutorial #MedEd platform built on a simple stack by @danfascia

  • Github - acts as the CMS for markdown files
  • Jekyll - Builds the site
  • Netlify - Superb CDN hosting and CI/CD
  • Vimeo - Hosts and serves the video files

A custom uploader backend was created by Jamie McKniff during 2018. It's pretty nifty, it takes the uploaded video and stores it on Vimeo using their API then, creates a markdown file referencing it on Github. This contains the metadata required to also build the entry and feed into Jekyll. The new markdown file creation is also the trigger to Netlify to rebuild.

Nose down hard work mostly by John Curtis and Radhika Prasad and we have 54 live radiology tutorial cases πŸ‘πŸΌ

During peak exam revision time we took 3,000 video views /day

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Modernising medical education and democratising access with free video tutorials and reasonably priced interactive screencasts. Radiology Masters is where the world come to learn radiology.

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