How it works

Submitting a Case of the Week

Case of the Week is the society's weekly teaching series. Each case appears on LinkedIn as a question, and a week later the answer follows. It then stays in the public case archive.

Before you start, have ready

• A short clinical history, written as you would present the case.
• A link to the anonymised images on PacsBin or Radiopaedia. Images are never uploaded to this site. Readers open the link a week before the answer, so it must open without signing in, must not expire, and must not show the diagnosis in its address or page title (Radiopaedia case pages are titled with the diagnosis).
• The diagnosis and two to four key teaching points.
• Optionally, a fuller explanation and a link to a short video walkthrough. A screen recording scrolling through the images works well.
• A few keywords, such as the body part, modality and condition, so readers can find the case later.
• The names of anyone who helped (up to 12), with their LinkedIn profile links so they can be credited. Their email addresses are optional; certificates for everyone come to you as lead submitter.

Give the case a title that describes the presentation, not the diagnosis, as it is shown with the question. Then fill in the submission form. It takes about ten minutes, and your answers are kept on your device until you submit, so a closed tab loses nothing.

What happens next

1. Confirm your email. The first time you submit, we email you a link to confirm your address; your case reaches the committee once you click it. Future cases from the same address go straight through.
2. Review. You receive a receipt by email. The Education Sub Committee then checks every case, and you will hear by email whether it has been accepted.
3. Changes. If the committee asks for amendments, the email explains what is needed and includes a link to your form, already filled in (the link works for 90 days, and a reminder follows after two weeks). Make the changes and resubmit; the case returns to the committee.
4. Publication. Accepted cases are published one a week, and we email you when yours goes live. The question appears on the society's LinkedIn page first, with the line "Case courtesy of" and the names of you and your team, and readers post their thoughts in the comments. A week later the answer is posted, crediting you and your team again.
5. Archive. The case then stays in the case archive, where anyone can attempt it and reveal the answer.
6. Certificates. Once the answer is published, the lead submitter receives one email with a certificate of appreciation for each contributor, ready to pass on.

Patient confidentiality

No patient images or records are uploaded to this site: cases link to images hosted on PacsBin or Radiopaedia. Before submitting, you confirm that the case contains no patient-identifiable information and that you have the right to share the linked images for teaching. Please check the images, the history and any video for names, dates of birth, hospital numbers and burnt-in labels.

Your information

• Case submissions are seen by the committee. Once published, the case and the contributors' names appear on LinkedIn and in the archive. Email addresses are never published.
• Grant and bursary applications, including your document, are seen only by the committee members assessing that award. Three months after the award is decided, your document, your written answers and your contact details are deleted; your name, post, institution and the outcome are kept as the society's record of the award.
• The site uses no cookies and no advertising or tracking services. Visits are counted anonymously to help the committee improve the site. To stop the forms being misused, a scrambled code derived from your network address is kept for up to two days; the address itself is never stored.
• The society's backups of this information are kept for up to a year and then deleted. Older records of how the site is used are kept without names or email addresses.

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