This is the check list that i used: Make a list of things you frequently miss and in the exam, look for those things first.

RR checklist

craniofacial
- skull radiograph checklist
  - Fracture – depressed
  - Sphenoid air-fluid
  - Air in orbit and skull
  - Sella
  - FB in the eye
  - Lytic lesions in the skull
  - Upper C spine – dens
- facial bones radiograph checklist
  - Fluid in maxillary sinus
  - Don’t call blow out – say orbit floor #
  - Tripod
c-spine radiograph checklist
- AA distance
- Harris ring
- Prevertebral soft tissue
- 3 lines
- fracture – chance, peg, hang man
- facet – perched
l&t-spine radiograph checklist
- Collapse
- Lung mass / lobar collapse
- paraspinal soft tissue
- Empty VB sign – each VB should have accompanying posterior elements – vertebra plana
- pedicles – mets
- SI joint
- Calcified aortic aneurysm
chest radiograph checklist
- Situs
- Air: Pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum, surgical emphysema
- Apices – nodule or pneumothorax
- Bones: shoulder dislocation, clavicle fracture, humerus fracture, missing pedicle, check ribs last (missing rib, lytic area, notching, fractures)
- Cardia: heart chamber enlargement, pericardial effusion, retrocardiac region
- Mediastinum – tracheal deviation, paratracheal stripe
- Collapse: veil, retrocardiac triangle, RML, RUL
- Diaphragm: lesion behind the diaphragm
- Hila, mediastinum – esophagus
- Lungs – call it NODULE or consolidation – not mass or pneumonia
- Pleura – CP and cardiophrenic recess
- Soft tissue – Breast shadow, neck mass, axilla (look for clips etc.)
upper limb
- shoulder radiograph checklist
  - dislocation or #
  - AC joint
  - Bankart lesion
  - AVN
  - Lung – mass, PTX
  - Ribs – # or lytic lesion
- elbow radiograph checklist
- wrist radiograph checklist
  - Triquetral fracture on lateral
  - Scaphoid fracture will have 4 views
  - Hamate hook # on lateral and AP
  - Scapho-lunate dissociation
  - Distal radius # – impacted fracture
  - Buckle, torus, SH #
  - AVN of lunate and scaphoid
- hand radiograph checklist
  - MC or phalange #
  - Acro-osteolysis
  - Foreign body
abdomen radiograph checklist: bones, stones, solid (organs), liquids (bile, urine), gas (extraluminal, mural, intraluminal)
- Bowel – obstruction, hernial orifice
- Foreign body
- Colitis – thumb printing, toxic megacolon
- Pneumo – look if the gas takes the shape of the kidney, rigler, PV gas or pneumobilia, retroperitoneal gas, GB or urinary bladder air
- Soft tissue – hepatosplenomegaly, psoas outline, kidneys, pelvic mass, missing spleen
- Calcification – aortic aneurysm, appendicolith, gall stone, renal stone, uterine fibroid, dermoid, pancreatic, hydatid
- Bones – sacroilitis, ivory vertebra, missing pedicle, missing VB (collapse), lytic lesion in pelvis, AVN, Lower ribs
- Lung base– bronchiectasis
Pelvis:
- SI joint
- Avulsions – AIIS, pubic tubercle
- Looser zones
- Iliac wing #
- SUFE, Perthe
- Impacted NOF fracture
- Hernial orifices
lower limb
- knee radiograph checklist
  - lipohemarthrosis
  - tibial plateau
  - SONK in femur
  - OCD
  - Segond and Pelligreni Steida lesion
  - Patella alta and baja
- ankle radiograph checklist
  - Tibial, fibular #
  - Lateral talar #
  - Talar dome – OCD: look carefully in the part overlapping the fibula
  - Calcaneal
  - Base of 5th
  - Tarsal coalition
- foot radiograph checklist
  - Base of 5th vs apophysis
  - Lis franc – alignment
  - Stress # – periosteal rxn only
  - AVN – freiberg
  - Malleolar #
  - Lateral talar #, anterior calcaneal #