What doctors in training actually want from a teaching platform

Built for organisers. But what about attendees?

Most teaching management tools are designed for the people who run programmes. That makes sense — they’re the ones buying the software. But the people who actually attend teaching — doctors in training — have their own needs. If the platform doesn’t work for them, adoption fails and the data never gets captured.

Here’s what trainees keep telling us they want.

The teaching timetable at their fingertips

Trainees want one place to see what teaching is coming up. Not an email buried in their inbox from three weeks ago, not a PDF pinned to a noticeboard in a corridor they never walk down. An interactive calendar they can filter by topic, site, or date — and subscribe to in their own calendar app.

Exogi publishes all approved events to a public calendar with filters. Trainees can subscribe via an ICS feed that works with Outlook, Google Calendar, and Apple Calendar. The teaching timetable lives where they already look.

Enough notice to plan around it

Teaching that appears with 48 hours’ notice competes with rota commitments, on-call shifts, and annual leave. Trainees want to see the teaching calendar ahead of time so they can plan swaps, arrange cover, and actually attend.

When events are submitted and approved in advance, the calendar is populated weeks or months ahead. Trainees can plan around it rather than reacting to it.

Reminders that aren’t nagging

A reminder the day before and the morning of the session. Not 17 emails. Not nothing. Just enough to make sure teaching stays on the radar without adding to inbox fatigue.

Exogi sends configurable reminders — typically the day before and the morning of the event. Trainees can opt out if they prefer.

Training opportunities beyond formal teaching

Formal teaching sessions are only part of the picture. Recurring clinical opportunities — pain clinics, CPET assessments, critical care follow-ups, high-risk obstetrics, pre-op assessment — exist at most hospital sites but never get advertised systematically.

Exogi supports training opportunities as recurring calendar entries that sit alongside formal teaching. Trainees can browse what’s available across their sites and plan their educational needs around what’s on offer.

A teaching log that builds itself

After each session, trainees confirm their attendance via a prompt sent before the session ends. That confirmation creates a record in their teaching log — date, session title, site. Over the course of a year, this builds into a portfolio-ready summary of every teaching session they’ve attended.

No chasing programme leads for certificates. No filling in retrospective logs from memory. The evidence is there because it was captured at the time.

Feedback that’s quick and painless

Trainees are willing to give feedback — if it takes five minutes, not twenty. If the questions are relevant. And if they believe it actually reaches the organiser and makes a difference.

Exogi sends feedback surveys automatically after each session. The surveys are mobile-first, one question at a time, and take a few minutes to complete. Responses are collated into a report and delivered to the organiser. Trainees know their feedback is heard.

Register for sessions easily

Want to attend a teaching session? Trainees can register directly from the calendar — whether they have an account or as a guest. They get a confirmation email, a reminder, and after the session, a prompt to confirm attendance and give feedback. The whole experience is designed to be frictionless.

It’s not either/or

Exogi is designed for both sides — programme leads who need to manage teaching, and doctors in training who need teaching to work around their lives. When both sides find value in the platform, the data gets captured, the feedback gets collected, and the programme runs better for everyone.