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Core Wisdom for the DCSRH
Short pieces on contraception and sexual health — the kind of thing we’d talk through after clinic. Written for the diploma, grounded in UKMEC 2025 and current CoSRH guidance.
This is the GP Diplomas edition of Core Wisdom — separate from our AKT blog, with its own SRH-focused series.
Clinical
Guideline updates & the rules that matterEmergency contraception, decided
Copper IUD vs ulipristal vs levonorgestrel by time window, weight, enzyme inducers and breastfeeding — including the ulipristal–progestogen interaction people miss.
Read the piece →Quick-starting, decided
Start almost any method today: the FSRH checklist for being reasonably sure someone is not pregnant, what to do when you cannot be, and how long each method takes to work.
Read the piece →Missed pills without the flowchart
Two questions decide every scenario — how many, and which week — plus the three progestogen-only windows and the drospirenone exception.
Read the piece →The postpartum window
Day 21, six weeks and six months: the three clocks behind every postpartum question, method by method.
Read the piece →STI testing: windows, tests and who to tell
Window periods, first-line treatment, the 2025 gonorrhoea test-of-cure change, and partner-notification look-backs.
Read the piece →Learning
How to revise it, not just what to reviseLearning UKMEC without memorising the grid
How to hold the condition × method logic in your head with a handful of principles instead of brute-forcing the whole table — built for how memory actually works.
Read the piece →The OTA is open book — use it well
Fifty questions in sixty minutes: what to have open, how to read the stem, and how to spend your look-ups.
Read the piece →Real life
Revising around a clinical lifeFitting the DCSRH around a full week
The diploma has four moving parts and a day job. A realistic way to sequence the e-learning, the clinical assessments and the theory revision without it taking over.
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“We’re writing these the way we’d explain them to a colleague after clinic — specific, practical, and current. Tell us what you’d find most useful and we’ll prioritise it.”Dr Victoria Hammond, Co-Founder, and Dr David Palethorpe, Co-Founder & GP Partner
A note on accuracy and independence. These pieces are written for revision and follow current UK guidance — UKMEC 2025 and the College of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (CoSRH, formerly the FSRH). They are not a substitute for the full guideline or clinical judgement. Posts are reviewed, re-audited and corrections logged; always check the current guidance for patient care. Core Revision is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with CoSRH or the RCGP.
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The rest of the DCSRH toolkit
Every part of the DCSRH track, one click away. Work across them rather than through them — the guide explains it, the tools drill the decision, the bank tests it and the Compass tells you what is left.