Free for trainees, until the day you qualify

If you are training in radiology, RadMyk is free. Not a trial. Not a discount. Free, for as long as you are a trainee, right up until the day you qualify and stop being one.

We did this for a selfish reason and an unselfish one.

The unselfish reason

Learning to dictate well is a skill. The residents who practice structured, fluent reporting early become faster, clearer attendings later. Charging a trainee to learn that skill felt backwards. So we removed the price.

The first years of radiology are already full of friction. You are learning anatomy, modalities, protocols, normal variants, uncertainty, attending preferences, and the discipline of saying only what the image supports. Dictation should not be another toll booth.

Good reporting habits compound. The way you describe a pulmonary nodule, a subdural collection, a liver lesion, or postoperative change becomes muscle memory. The sooner speech feels ordinary, the sooner you can spend attention on the report rather than the tool. If you are still figuring out where RadMyk sits among the options, our medical dictation software buyer’s guide covers the landscape.

That is why trainee access is not a short marketing trial. A two-week countdown does not match training. Residency and fellowship are measured in years. The license should respect that.

The selfish reason

Trainees are the best testers we have. You read across every subspecialty, you push the software in ways busy attendings never will, and you tell us exactly what is broken. That feedback is worth more than a license fee.

You also change context constantly. Chest in the morning, neuro after lunch, ultrasound on call, emergency CT overnight, MRI the next week. You dictate normal studies, messy studies, teaching cases, addenda, phone notes, and draft reports that get corrected in real time. That variety exposes weak vocabulary, awkward macros, poor defaults, and workflow assumptions quickly, the same friction that explains why radiologists end up hating voice dictation when the tool fights them.

We want that pressure on the product. If RadMyk works for trainees while they rotate through the roughest mix of reporting environments, it will work better for everyone else.

So here is the arrangement:

• While you train: RadMyk is free. Verify once with your trainee status and keep working.
• When you qualify: the trainee license winds down, since you have finished training, after all.
• Need a little longer? Take our short survey and we extend your access by 30 days to bridge the gap while you sort out a permanent license. It is our way of saying thanks for the feedback.

What you get while training

Trainee access is the same RadMyk dictation product: on-device speech recognition, offline use after setup, macOS Apple Silicon and Windows support, voice macros, guided calibration, and cursor-based typing into the tools you already use.

There is no trainee watermark and no reduced quota. If you can type into a report editor, PACS/RIS field, EHR box, browser tool, or notes app, RadMyk can place dictated text there. The goal is to make voice input feel ordinary before the reporting volume becomes yours.

No credit card while you train. No countdown timer hanging over your training. Dictation gets out of the way so you can learn the part that matters.

Who qualifies as a trainee?

RadMyk trainee access is for people training in radiology: residents and registrars in a radiology program, and fellows doing subspecialty training. If you are enrolled in a recognized radiology training pathway and not yet practicing independently, you qualify.

Medical students are a case we lean generous on. If you are a student seriously working toward radiology, doing electives, research, or reporting practice, get in touch and we will sort you out. The point of the program is to remove cost for people learning the craft, not to police the edges of who counts.

Verification is light. You confirm your trainee status once and keep working. There is no repeated re-approval every few weeks, and no manager sign-off to chase.

How to start with RadMyk as a trainee

Getting set up takes a few minutes:

1. Download RadMyk for macOS (Apple Silicon) or Windows and install it.
2. On first run, complete the short guided calibration so the model tunes to your voice and microphone.
3. Verify your trainee status once when prompted.
4. Set your global shortcut, then dictate into whatever you already report in: the PACS or RIS field, the EHR, a browser reporting tool, Word, or Notes.

There is no credit card step and no trial countdown to watch. When you qualify and stop being a trainee, the trainee license winds down. If you need a bridge while you arrange a permanent license, our short survey extends your access by 30 days. You can see the current pricing and options whenever you are ready to move to a full license, and there is no subscription to cancel, because RadMyk is a one-time purchase.

Does learning to dictate early actually help?

Yes, and the reason is habit. Reporting is a motor skill as much as a knowledge one. The resident who dictates fluently by the end of first year spends the next four years refining findings, not fighting the microphone.

Concretely, early practice builds a few things that pay off later:

• Structure. You learn to speak a report in a consistent order, so nothing gets dropped under time pressure.
• Macros. You build voice macros for the studies you read most: a normal chest, a routine head CT, a standard follow-up, so the boilerplate writes itself and you spend attention on the abnormal.
• Pace. You learn to dictate at reading speed rather than stopping and starting, which is the difference between a tool that helps and one that interrupts.

Those habits are hard to add later, when the reporting volume is already yours and there is no slack to change how you work. Training is the cheap time to build them. Voice dictation can also cut documentation time, which matters more as your list grows.

Frequently asked questions

Is RadMyk really free for radiology residents?

Yes. RadMyk is free for the entire length of your radiology training, not a limited trial. There is no watermark, no reduced feature set, and no credit card required while you train.

What happens when I finish training?

When you qualify and stop being a trainee, the trainee license winds down. If you need time to arrange a permanent license, a short survey extends your access by 30 days to bridge the gap.

Do I need a credit card to start?

No. Trainee access does not ask for a card and has no trial countdown. You verify your trainee status once and keep working.

Does RadMyk work on a Mac?

Yes. RadMyk runs natively on macOS Apple Silicon as well as Windows, which matters because many trainees work on Macs that the older dictation tools never supported. The best medical dictation software for Mac guide covers the Mac-specific detail.

Can fellows use the trainee license?

Yes. Fellows in subspecialty radiology training qualify the same way residents do, for the length of the fellowship.

Voice input should be ordinary before the reporting volume becomes yours. That is the whole idea behind making it free while you learn. When you are ready, start with RadMyk.