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Most online radiology education platforms start with lectures.
Ours did not.
BerlinCaseViewer started with cases.
From the beginning, the idea was to create an environment in which radiologists could do what they actually do in clinical practice: look at images, scroll through datasets, recognize patterns, make diagnostic decisions, and learn from what they see.
Only later did we add lectures. That sequence still defines the BCV Online Academy today.
Case by Osman Gaboose, Nairobi, Kenya.
There is certainly no shortage of excellent radiology lectures online.
But watching someone else interpret images is different from interpreting them yourself.
That is why our educational concept has always been case-centered. Learners work through real imaging datasets, make their own observations and decisions, answer questions, and then receive explanations and expert guidance.
The lectures were added to provide the background: concepts, disease mechanisms, diagnostic strategies, classifications, pitfalls, and deeper explanations.
The lectures support the cases — not the other way around.
This is somewhat different from the development of many other educational platforms, which started primarily with video content and subsequently incorporated cases. We came from the opposite direction.
Case by Sana Boudabbous, Geneva, Switzerland.
There is another aspect that has become increasingly important to us.
Everything in the BCV Online Academy is built into one integrated learning environment.
The cases, imaging datasets, annotations, MCQs, explanatory videos, and lectures all live within the same platform.
And the viewer itself is ours.
We did not purchase a third-party image viewer and connect it to an educational website. We developed the viewing environment specifically around the way we want people to learn radiology.
That means no external viewers suddenly opening in another browser tab. No separate tools that look and behave differently. No educational components that seem to live independent lives.
Instead, the different elements can interact: an image can lead to a question, a question to an explanation, an annotation to a subtle finding, and a case to the concepts discussed in a lecture.
One platform. One viewer. One learning experience.
And yes — it is homemade. The viewing and learning environment was developed by BCV specifically for radiology education rather than assembled from disconnected third-party tools.
The platform has grown substantially.
Today, the Academy contains 7+ hours of case-based video content and more than 18 hours of expert lectures.
Together, this represents more than 25 hours of video teaching — in addition to the time spent actively working through hundreds of imaging cases.
The roots of BerlinCaseViewer lie in musculoskeletal and rheumatologic imaging. Accordingly, rheumatic diseases remain one of the strongest areas of the Academy.
With hundreds of cases and lectures covering inflammatory and rheumatic disorders, we believe the Academy has become one of the largest dedicated imaging education collections in this field worldwide.
But the scope has expanded considerably.
Today, there is a strong representation of musculoskeletal radiology as a whole, alongside content from other fields including cardiopulmonary imaging.
And that range will continue to grow.
Case by Kay G. Hermann, Berlin, Germany.
After all these years, this may still be the easiest way to describe what we are trying to build:
Not a library of things to watch, but a place to practise radiology.
Videos are an important part of it.
But scrolling through an examination yourself, deciding what matters, getting something wrong, looking again, seeing an annotation appear at the right moment, and understanding why a finding matters — that is where much of the learning happens.
That philosophy started with the very first BCV cases. It still drives the Academy today.
And we are far from finished.
30 case collections · 266 cases · 486 MCQs · 42 lectures · 25+ hours of video teaching
Full access: €650/year, plus VAT where applicable. Monthly payment option available.
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