MBBS, BSc (Hons)
NHS GP Partner · Co-Founder and Lead for Educational Design, Core Revision
Victoria is a GP Partner who focuses on building learning systems that empower trainees to use their own strengths to reach their potential. Her work centres on creating flexible, supportive structures that fit around real lives rather than forcing people into rigid revision models.
She has a particular interest in holistic care and working with individuals to help them achieve their chosen aims — clinically and educationally.
Favourite topics: Women’s health · Mental health · Neurodiversity
Outside of work: Spending time outdoors in nature, walking, and continued attempts at cold-water swimming.
Every Core Revision resource is written by a practising UK GP, peer-reviewed by another GP and reviewed for learning design. How we write our questions · About the Core Revision team
GMC registration, or a qualification eligible for it, plus an approved course: that is the whole DOccMed entry rule. What it means for GPs, SAS doctors and locums, why trainees usually wait, and the questions for doctors qualified outside the UK.
Six to fifteen months from the first day of an approved course to the certificate, with five years allowed. The sequence, the three deadlines that bind, and what fast, typical and slow routes look like.
The DOccMed was built for doctors doing occupational health part-time, and the Faculty says GPs are its typical candidates. What the three parts involve, the £1,346 in fees, where it helps a GP career and where it does not.
A minute a question and an overall mark only: most DipMSK marks lost on the day go to technique. Seven ways candidates give marks away in a single-best-answer paper, and the habit that prevents each one.
A twelve-week DipMSK plan for the candidate whose MSK knowledge is cases rather than a map: the eighteen syllabus subjects in order, two recall passes, timed practice, and the admin of the final week, working back from 27 May 2027.
The DipMSK is the one external exam that tests how a generalist reasons through musculoskeletal problems. Where it fits a GP week, where it helps a portfolio career, where it does not, and when to sit it.
Four live stations in Liverpool are rehearsed, not revised. How to run a mock station with two colleagues, a six-week plan from CGM results to exam day, what to practise saying aloud, and the logistics.
Two applications, months apart, both through Orzone. The eligibility check, the CGM window of 14 December 2026 to 18 January 2027, the DGM windows and the £668 fee, refunds, and the slips that catch people.
The CGM written paper is on 24 February 2027 and most candidates are working full time. An eight-week plan built around five to seven hours a week, with the RCP application window in the middle of it.
No periods, not pregnant: read FSH beside oestradiol to find where the problem lies — POI, FHA, prolactin, PMOS or Asherman. For AKT, MSRA and DRCOG.
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