New Questions, Enhancements, and Features!

New Appropriateness Criteria questions

Access these questions one of two ways:

Select the Intermediate Curriculum and scroll down until you see the folder labeled Special Topics. From here, select Appropriateness Criteria.

Use the filters in the Comprehensive Practice Engine found on the Quiz Activity page to incorporate these new questions into your Custom quizzes. 

Keep in mind there are no pre- or post-tests for the topics in Special Topics.

Create a quiz over multiple levels and different categories

From the Quiz Activity Page click on a curriculum folder to expand and select your desired categories. Select More Options to further filter your selection by flagged questions, questions not taken, and practice or test questions. *Test questions are those that are used for the pre- post- tests in each category.

Easily retake missed questions from a previously taken quiz

From the Quiz activity page, you can quickly take a quiz using only the missed questions by selecting the retry missed questions icon located to the right of each completed quiz. Your retaken quiz will also be stored in your quiz activity so that you can take a re-take of a re-take! 

Pre- and post-test questions opened to residents as practice questions

The availability of this feature will depend on a few factors: 

If you belong to a program that has purchased RADPrimer:

Ask your Program Director to send an email to support@radprimer.com requesting access to these questions for all 4^th year residents in your program. We will turn that access on for you as soon as we hear from your Program Director. Also, make sure to set your status to 4^th year in your RADPrimer profile. Confirm or update by selecting the Profile tab from any page within RADPrimer.

If you have purchased your own subscription to RADPrimer: 

You will automatically have access to those questions previously available only by taking the pre- or post-tests. 

To access these questions:

Launch a quiz from any place within the curriculum and select Advanced Quiz Builder use the Question Pool drop-down box to:

• select from All,
• incorporate both practice and test questions in your quiz and Test
• limit your quiz to only those used in the pre- or post-tests 

Alternatively, you can start a quiz from the Quiz Activity page.

• Select More Options to display the Question Pool drop-down box.
• Select from All to incorporate both practice and test questions in your quiz.
• Select Test, to limit your quiz to only those used in the pre- or post-tests.

If you do not see the Question Pool drop-down box and you believe you should have access to this feature please click Help and then Report a Problem. 

View Results of pre- post- tests along with answer explanations

If you would like to use the pre- or post-testing model to measure improvement, you can take a pre-test in any category (except special topics) and when you are ready, take the post-test. Once you have taken both, you can review your answers and explanations by navigating to the desired category and selecting  pre- or post-test from the Activity Overview pane. Keep in mind that completed pre- or post-tests are not stored in the quiz activity page.

Keyboard Shortcuts 

Make your valuable study time even more productive by using the keyboard shortcuts to quickly take quizzes. While taking a quiz, select the keyboard shortcuts menu to see the shortcuts available. Additionally, you can now easily navigate to the next correct, incorrect, or flagged question by clicking on Jump To…while in quiz review mode.  

Question Feedback

We welcome and appreciate your feedback about our questions. We have made this process easier by adding a feedback mechanism to capture all of the requisite details of the question. This means that you do not have to copy and paste screenshots, or leave your quiz to report a problem to us. Feel free to add any additional comments you have in the comment box provided. 

Additional enhancements 

Selections made in your drop-down boxes will persist between sessions so you don't have to make the same selections over and over again. 

All practice quizzes are saved, even if you have not named them prior to beginning the quiz. Saved quizzes can be found in the Quiz Activity page.