About Us

Developmedica – a dedicated team!

Developmedica, formerly Apply2Medicine, was founded by Matt Green in October 2005 with the goal of supporting prospective and current doctors and allied healthcare professionals at every stage of their careers. We have since evolved from simply offering application and interview advice to establishing ourselves as the leading provider of non-clinical career support for medical professionals through a broad spectrum of services tailored to meet your learning needs, including: a diverse and unique range of publications, development courses, and e-Learning modules.

Developmedica has supported over 30,000 individuals in helping to progress their medical careers in the last two years alone, addressing a clear shortfall in meeting the learning and development needs of healthcare professionals. We are passionate about developing those

working in the public health sector, and in doing so helping to improve the quality of healthcare provision in the UK. To that end, we use only the most experienced and highly qualified individuals to assist in delivering our services.

We are proud of our consistently high standards of educational excellence, and are committed full-time to meeting the development needs of all healthcare professionals. Our core principle is making the interests of the individual our main priority and we are not sponsored by any pharmaceutical companies or other external interests.

We have a solution for everyone and offer a blended approach to learning at every step of your career to provide assistance that suits you. Our commitment is to those we support and to proactively evolve alongside healthcare services in the UK. If you require a service that we do not currently offer – please tell us!

Fahad Attar

Fahad currently works as a Trauma & Orthopaedic SpR, having recently completed his FRCS specialist exams. He graduated from Liverpool University and undertook his basic surgical training in Merseyside prior to securing his SpR training number in East Midlands. Furthermore, he is currently pursuing a PGCE in Medical education.

Graham Blackman

Graham attained First Class Honours in Psychology at the University of Bath, which included a one-year internship at Harvard University. Since graduating he has held research positions at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and the University of Nottingham and is currently a student on the Graduate Entry Medicine course at the University of Birmingham. Graham is an enthusiastic teacher and has assisted Developmedica in supporting prospective medical and dentistry school students since 2008.

Nicole Corriette

Uday Dandekar

Originally from London and trained at University College London Medical School. She was awarded the University College and Middlesex Hospital Club Award for her achievements in pre-clinical medicine and also won the Smith-Kline and Beecham Prize Award for her achievements in her intercalated BSc. She graduated in 2003 with a distinction in her MBBS and a First Class Intercalated BSc in Physiology. Following her love for general practice she joined a Pan-London VTS scheme in 2005 and completed her registrar year on the Barnet VTS. In 2007 she completed her MRCGP with a distinction overall, and was one of only 20 candidates that year to achieve a merit in all four components. Subsequently, she was nominated for the Fraser Rose Medal by the RCGP. She is currently a partner in a large practice in Dunstable and co-wrote our GP ST Stage 2 and Stage 3 books.

Uday has gained over 20 years experience within surgery since qualifying from medical school in Mumbai, India. He has completed his Masters in general surgery, as well as in cardiothoracic surgery, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of both Glasgow and Edinburgh. He has also worked in a clinical capacity in the USA having completed his USMLE and is a practicing consultant cardiac surgeon, having achieved his cardiothoracic exit exams FRCS (CTh). He brings with him a wealth of clinical experience and is a keen teacher. He serves as a consultant for Developmedica’s interview skills courses, as well as on the advisory panel for Developmedica.

Vikram Dave 

Vikram graduated from University College London in July 2001 and went on to become a GP registrar in Central London. He then worked as a GP locum for a year before becoming a portfolio GP. He is currently a salaried GP with a view to partnership in Victoria and works with Developmedica in an advisory and facilitator role for our range of GP support services.

Tony Edgar 

Tony, who has gained diverse experience within the field of medicine, works in a consultancy role advising Developmedica on present and future projects together with helping to deliver our range of development courses for doctors. Tony’s early medical career saw him working as an SpR in Radiology before working as a GP and then becoming a consultant in public health. Tony has held a number of consultant public health positions, including a post as Director of Public Health, and since 2002 he has been a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. He has also gained considerable management experience through working as a Medical Director of a large NHS trust.
 

Shaun Finegan 

Shaun has worked for major corporations for over 30 years with a real passion for helping people develop their management and leadership abilities through their personal growth & development. The courses Shaun has delivered in the NHS to date include: “Management & Leadership Training for Senior Doctors”, “Teach the Teacher”, “Appraisal Skills”, “Presentation Skills” and “Team Understanding/Building for Senior Personnel”. Shaun is also a member of the CIPD (Chartered Institute for Personnel & Development). His own CPD involves constant research and implementation of the ‘best practice’ strategies to help people develop and achieve their full potential. Shaun supports Developmedica in a facilitator role on our courses.

Matt Green 

Having completed his BSc in Biochemistry, Matt went on to complete an MPhil at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. This involved working closely with medical professionals on a number of projects developing novel drugs for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Since establishing Developmedica in 2005, Matt has been supporting prospective and current doctors to progress their career through providing application and interview advice together with helping doctors to develop their non-clinical skills including leadership, management, teaching and communication skills.

Peter Hobson 

Peter Hobson has been innovating and presenting in the training environment for over 30 years. A gifted and charismatic speaker and presenter, Peter has built a strong reputation of commitment to both personal and professional excellence. He’s also been a professional angler, international marathon runner and part-time adventurer, with runs across the Sahara and Everest (twice) on his resume. Peter works with us in a facilitator role for a wide range of our courses.

Gerry Kitchingman

Gerry’s career has been predominantly in medical research, both in the pharmaceutical sector and in teaching hospitals. Originally trained as a scientist, she became keenly interested in people development and expanded her career into training and human resources. As an accredited trainer for the Institute of Leadership and Management, she delivers a range of management development programmes from junior to senior level across a variety of sectors. Gerry is also a qualified Myers Briggs practitioner and uses this experience to enhance her special interest which lies with personality dynamics and team development. She facilitates courses on behalf of Developmedica.

Mike Lee

Mike has accumulated over 20 years experience working in senior positions for companies within the commercial sector, specialising in the areas of sales, marketing, product design and development. This has given him a good knowledge and understanding of people’s needs, teamwork, leadership and project management. Through coaching, mentoring and training he has been able to help people develop their skills and fulfill there own potential. He has a passion for helping people and has been involved with a number of community based projects. This has enabled him to share his ‘real life’ experiences through his teaching. Mike works with Developmedica as a facilitator on selected courses.

Vaughan Roberts

Vaughan has over 25 years experience working for major international corporations, where he successfully demonstrated his leadership and management skills in a variety of challenging roles. He has held senior board level positions with full operational and P&L responsibilities within the manufacturing and high volume retail sectors. Vaughan’s particular interests are in leadership training and management development, where his own leadership skills are highly relevant to the current challenges faced by many sectors, including the NHS. He is an Adair Accredited Leadership Trainer and is also ILM Accredited in Business Support. This background enables Vaughan’s excellent and impactful training delivery to be reinforced with highly relevant personal experience. Vaughan works with us in a facilitator role for a wide range of our courses.

Ian Smith 

Ian is an experienced training manager with a corporate background who specialises in course design, planning and implementation. He has broad knowledge of soft skills training and has designed and delivered a variety of Teach the Teacher programmes, amongst others, across a wide variety of audiences. His watchword is practicality and insists that programmes delivered on behalf of Developmedica are of the highest standard and have practical applications in the workplace. Ensuring customer satisfaction through high quality courses, venues and facilitators is his number one aim.

Tania Van Hospenthal 

Her interest and career in the medical arena started in 2004 with the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman, working in the Clinical Advice Directorate as a business manager. This experience led to wanting to be able to make a change at a different level where the common theme of complaints stemmed from – consistent training standards for doctors. The next step was to be PMETB for the next three years, where she was involved in the initial set up of the Certification Directorate as the Interim Head of Certification and the development of the Article 14 (4), Article 14(5) and (5)(b) procedures and processes. From this position she moved to the Interim Certification Development Analyst working on developing all areas of Article 14, including: Specialty Specific Guidance, the assessment process of applications, reviews, appeals and training of PMETB staff and Royal Colleges as required. With this wealth of experience Tania is involved in providing our range of Article 14 PMETB support services.

Tony Woollett

Tony has approaching 30 years corporate experience in various technical, sales/marketing and management roles. He is a qualified NLP and TFT Practitioner and helps individuals to overcome their fears, anxieties and phobias. He specialises in behavioural and business process change and works with NHS doctors, middle and senior management. Tony regularly delivers programmes in leadership, assertiveness, communication, time management and uses his passion to help individuals develop their own resources and potential through his focus on making programmes relevant and fun. He helps deliver a range of courses on behalf of Developmedica.