 What is up YouTube welcome back to my channel today. We're going to be doing something a little different because I wanted to add a new dimension to this channel. I'm going to start with a little recurring segment I like to call wet read. Wet read is where we discuss current events in radiology and interventional radiology and I hopefully plan on doing it like weekly or monthly or whenever I get around to it or whenever something interesting is in the news. So hopefully you guys like it. Let me know what you think in the comments below if I should continue this or if it's terrible I'll stop it and we may need a new intro so let's get to it. Today is actually about the American Board of Radiology Core exam which if you see in my last video is the exam I talked about in length and I actually passed which is awesome but after the American Board of Radiology released the scores earlier this week people weren't too happy about it because the fail rates have continued to rise over the last few years. The fail rate for this current examination that I just took was almost 16% is 15.9% so that means only 84% of radiology residents passed the examination. That compares to the last year which was a 13% fail rate and the year before that which was a 6.3% fail rate. So we go from the pass rate in 2017 being 93.5% to 86.2% in 2018 and not only 84% in 2019. So what does it mean that we have an increased percentage of radiology residents who failed year after year? I don't really know to be honest with you. I don't think we're becoming less intelligent as the years progress. I don't think the American Board of Radiology Core examination is getting harder. I think it's probably the same difficulty level year after year but maybe one theory I have is that question writers are looking at our resources that we study off of and finding gaps in those resources and kind of hitting questions on those subjects but honestly I thought the examination was pretty fair. I did study quite a bit so that may have helped but I mean anecdotally I think it's a fair examination but I don't think that you know 16% of radiology residents should fail the examination. I think it's something to look at but I don't know why that many people are failing and in radiology we have pretty high standards for radiology resident applications so the board scores for step one per se for radiology residents is generally pretty high on average so I think most people who are accepted into radiology are pretty good test takers to begin with so I don't think they become worst test takers as I go through residency but I don't know it's something to look at it's very interesting I'd be curious to see what the pass rates are for other specialties so that is it for this episode hope you guys enjoyed it I'll try to spend more time finding interesting topics for the next wet read episode make sure you follow me on Instagram smash that like and subscribe button turn on post notifications and I will see you guys on the next video