Know Your Positions

Practice for radiographic positioning — the x-ray positions on the master positioning list, and the details that decide each one: where the central ray is centred, tube angle, obliquity or rotation, flexion or extension, baseline, technique, grid and IR size, SID, what the view is best seen on, breathing instruction, and anything additional.

Ways to study, from loosest to hardest:

• Flashcards — a position and one of its details on the front, the answer on the back, or the whole card at once. Turn it over and mark yourself.
• Detail drills — one detail across every position, typed from memory or answered from options.
• Near-identical pairs — the routines that differ in only a detail or two, drilled against each other.
• Full card — every detail of one position, chosen from dropdowns.
• Simulated practicum — ten prompts, every detail written out from a blank page, timed or untimed.
• All positions — the whole list, searchable on any value, with your study state on every position and every detail.

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