Learn how to do the exam — and how to use it.
Every physical exam maneuver on video, with the technique done correctly — and the published evidence for what each finding is actually worth at the bedside. Learners don’t just see how to perform a test; they learn what to do with the result.
Two halves of one skill
Perform the exam correctly.
- Every physical exam maneuver, demonstrated on video
- Correct technique for each one — positioning, landmarks, and what to look or listen for
- Full regional exam sequences and technique how-tos, so the pieces come together
- Both the ideal technique and the real-world way to do it
Know what each finding is worth.
- Every maneuver is also a diagnostic test, with what the evidence says about its ability to rule disease in or out
- A plain rating of how much a result should shift the diagnosis
- A calculator that turns a finding into a real probability of disease
Accurate technique for the exam you’ll actually do.
Most exam videos are demonstrations: a gowned model, a fixed sequence, a quiet lab. BedsideDx films the exam the way a working clinician performs it — on a patient who arrived dressed, in the time a visit allows, with each maneuver chosen because its finding changes the diagnosis. The patient is gowned when the exam requires it, not by routine.
We intentionally filmed a female patient. Female anatomy and its draping make many maneuvers harder to do well, so the videos show the more complex version rather than the convenient one: correct technique on a female body, with respectful draping throughout.
Evidence you can check.
Every diagnostic number on BedsideDx comes from the published medical literature, and every one links to its source. We report the data — we never invent a figure to fill a gap.
- Real, sourced numbers. Likelihood ratios drawn from peer-reviewed studies, each linked to the original so you can verify it yourself.
- Graded for how well it was studied. Each finding shows how well the research behind its numbers was designed and done, and whether it was repeated — and where our search of PubMed, the only database we search, found no study we could confirm meets our bar, it says so instead of showing a number.
- Kept current. Every entry shows when its evidence was last reviewed, and updates publish as the literature changes — no edition to wait for.
For programs
A standard your whole program can share.
One standard for the whole program
One demonstrated technique for each maneuver, plus full regional exam sequences and technique how-tos — so faculty teach, learners study, and examiners score from the same source, and a grade depends less on who is in the room.
Running in minutes
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Evidence faculty can check
Every diagnostic number is sourced to the literature — so it holds up in front of a skeptical room.
Ben Wilson, MD
BedsideDx was built by Ben Wilson, MD — a board-certified family physician who has practiced and taught medicine for more than a decade, and who is the examiner in the videos. He built it on a simple conviction: learners should master not just how to perform the bedside exam, but how to use it — with the same evidence we expect from every other diagnostic test.
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