Core Revision
CORE REVISION · DIPMSK
Ten short videos on the DipMSK
What the exam is, how to revise for it, and the clinical reasoning it tests — each one under two minutes. Free, and written by two UK GPs. Most episodes link to the tool that takes the same idea further.
EPISODE 01
What is the DipMSK?
One paper, 180 questions in 180 minutes, sat remotely. What the exam is, who can sit it, what it costs.
EPISODE 02
Is the DipMSK worth it?
Where it earns its keep, and the three cases where a different route is the right one.
EPISODE 03
Sixty seconds a question
A time budget that works, why you read the last line first, and the skill untimed revision never trains.
EPISODE 04
The syllabus, weighted
Eighteen subjects, not eighteen equal problems. Where to start and what to leave until later.
EPISODE 05
Passive restriction is the whole game
Active, passive, resisted — the whole shoulder examination in one sentence.
EPISODE 06
The 24-hour rule
How much a tendon should hurt during loading, and why the useful measurement is taken the next morning.
EPISODE 07
Rest is not the treatment
Pain and capacity are two different lines. Rest settles one and quietly lowers the other.
EPISODE 08
Red flags that aren’t
Bilateral tendon pain and night pain are not, on their own, red flags in tendinopathy. Here is what does change today’s plan.
EPISODE 09
The limping child, by age
Age reorders the differential. DDH, transient synovitis, Perthes, SUFE — and Kocher’s criteria.
EPISODE 10
What NG65 actually says
Two gateway conditions, nine criteria, and the conditional HLA-B27 step almost every summary drops.
Prefer to watch them in order? The whole series is one playlist on YouTube: DipMSK — the whole series. Everything else we have built for this exam starts at the DipMSK page.
The rest of the DipMSK toolkit
Every part of the DipMSK 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.