About Us
Our Mission
Our Values
This is what we aim to be.
Useful and supportive, promoting worthwhile content and courses which align with our values.
Obsessed with helping junior doctors learn new skills, avoiding filler content at all costs.
Honest and upfront about our intentions and limitations, with sleaze-free marketing.
Advocating for clinicians facing an epidemic of stress and burn-out culture in the NHS.
Our People
The Team
The core team at MedCourse is growing slowly to incorporate more doctors who have a passion for Medical Education. We are still a small firm, but are working with some exceptionally talented contributors and clients to make this the best resource it can be!
Dr James Davidson
Founder
James created MedCourse after combining his love of medical education with a passion for web development and creative marketing.
Mr Ash Ahluwalia
Surgical Director
Ash is an Orthopaedic Registrar and the founder of The London Course. He somehow also finds time to write surgical content for MedCourse.
Our Top Contributors
At MedCourse we are building a community of doctors and other healthcare professionals to produce and engage with content that is useful, interesting, and relevant to junior doctors. Sound interesting? Read more on our contribution page.
Here are the top contributors to our blog!
Dr Nikhil Ahluwalia
Nikhil is a cardiology registrar based in London and co-founder of Optimise Interviews, helping you to ace your core and higher medical speciality interviews.
Dr Victoria Kinkaid
Victoria is a junior doctor with a passion for women’s health and sexual and reproductive health.
Dr Jaimin Arya
Jaimin is an ST5 Anaesthetic Registrar based in East Midlands and runs anaesthetic interview courses for The London Course.
Dr. Tirth Vasa
Tirth is a ST4 Anaesthesiologist (MTI Trainee) based in Southern Yorkshire, from Mumbai, India. He runs a group which guides candidates for the FRCA examinations and offers guidance for other pathways into the NHS for the novice IMG. Writing is his passion whenever he is not eating.
Dr David Otuonye
David is an IMT junior doctor with an interest in Endocrinology. He enjoys all things basketball, film and RnB music.
Dr Niladri Dutta
Fueled by intuition, with an unwavering passion for Medicine, he currently thrives in a high-pressure environment in ED. Off-duty, catch him smashing boundaries on the cricket field, tackling opponents on the football pitch, or exploring the globe, seeking new adventures to feed his soul.
Dr Rebecca Richardson
Rebecca is a Junior Doctor working in the Midlands. Having completed her Foundation Years, she is now working as a Clinical Teaching Fellow, where she is able to pursue her love of Medical Education and enjoy some time out of the training pathway. When she’s not at work, Rebecca loves hiking, baking and playing with her new kittens!
Dr Justin Chiong
Justin studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and did his foundation years in Scotland, during which he successfully completed a part-time MSc in Clinical Education.
He subsequently moved to the Northwest to continue his training as an NIHR Cardiology Academic Clinical Fellow, and IMT.
Dr Priyanka Gandhi
Priyanka studied Medicine at the University of East Anglia. She enjoys teaching and pursued an intercalated degree in Medical Education at the University of Leeds.
Now she teaches in various capacities from face-to-face to online-based platforms. More recently, she has started as an IMT 1 trainee in the North West.
Dr Sashiananthan Ganesananthan
Sashi studied Medicine at Cardiff University. Following graduation, he completed the academic foundation program at Imperial College London.
He enjoys teaching and has completed a PgCert in Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh, leading a 9-month international teaching program.
How MedCourse was Founded
I’m Dr James Davidson – founder of MedCourse. I worked for 5 years as a trainee in the NHS, but working hard on the COVID frontline made me take a step back and think about what I wanted from my future. While I loved medicine, my interest in technology, education, and entrepreneurship was leading me away from a traditional career path.
While working I LOVED taking time to learn on courses, conferences, and taster days. I had plenty of study leave (not to mention study budget) and on each new placement would seek opportunities to take a breather and learn something new.
The trouble was, it was infuriatingly difficult to find courses relevant to my interests and level of training!
I knew there were plenty of amazing courses out there, I just didn’t have the time to find them! They were stuck in email chains, hiding on the 8th page of google, and camouflaged among the many posters of the mess advertising board. When I finally found one I liked, I had to tackle the arduous process of paper and email-based course booking.
So, when I made the decision to leave hospital medicine and create something of my own, I set out to make things easier for junior doctors. I wanted to help doctors get away from service provision and acquire new skills.
Thus, MedCourse was born!
On MedCourse you can search and filter a selection of virtual, face-to-face, and on-demand courses relevant to junior doctors practising in the UK.
I developed MedCourse with an amazing troop of friends, colleagues, and trusted advisors, and have ambitions to help modernise postgraduate medical education for the age of the internet.
I hope you find that we are the service you never knew you needed. If it isn’t yet, please get in touch – we are always looking for feedback!
Our Goals
In our first stage of development, the focus is to create something that is free and useful for junior doctors, in order to build a service which provides value to both doctors and course providers. We are not beholden to any shareholders or investors, which gives us more freedom to serve the junior doctor community in the best way we feel is possible.
As the platform grows and creates more opportunities for monetisation, we can move on to our more ambitious long-term goals. We want to remain focused on serving junior doctors specifically, in time becoming a one-stop shop for all of your educational needs outside of training.
When it comes to our core value of transparency, we want to put our money where our mouths are and show you exactly what we’re working towards. In the short term, we are busy working on several projects to:
While we work on improving the site as it is right now, we’re also planning larger projects to convince you to keep coming back! Here are some medium-term objectives we are developing in the background:
As a small business, we can be more agile and responsive to what our audience wants, so our development will ultimately change according to what you want. Once we have the resources, we would like to create a custom-coded platform which better meets the needs of our audience. Other long-term ideas aren’t set in stone, but here are some anyway:
Of course, you know something we don’t – you know exactly what you want. If you have any inspiration you’d like to share with us, please get in touch below!
Join Us on This Journey
We are humbled by every piece of feedback, every spark of an idea, and every offer of help we receive.
If you’d like to contribute to our mission of modernising medical education, here’s what we need right now:
Ideas
Have an idea about MedCourse? From the smallest piece of feedback to life-changing advice, we would love to hear it!
Writers
Love to write helpful and engaging content? Earn some money while you’re at it by contributing to our blog!
Educators
We want to provide junior doctors with the best content available. If you’re in the business of useful education, get in touch.
Partners
We’d love to hear from those who are just as passionate about improving the world of education. If you fit the bill, talk to us!