What TPDs actually need from a teaching management platform

The wishlist

We’ve spoken to dozens of Training Programme Directors across the UK about how they manage their teaching programmes. The conversations are remarkably consistent. Here’s what they say they need.

1. One place for everything

The number one request: stop making me switch between five different tools. Programme leads want a single platform where they can see sessions, attendance, trainees, and compliance — all in one place.

2. Attendance that doesn’t rely on paper

Paper registers get lost. They don’t get digitised. They sit in a pile on someone’s desk until ARCP season, at which point it’s too late. Digital attendance capture — linked directly to trainee records — is the most requested feature.

3. Compliance dashboards that update themselves

“I want to be able to log in and immediately see where we stand.” TPDs need real-time visibility into programme compliance. Not a spreadsheet they have to manually update, but a dashboard that reflects the current state of play.

4. Reports that don’t take a weekend

ARCP panel reports, school board submissions, deanery reviews — all require data that’s scattered across multiple sources. TPDs want to generate these in clicks, not spend their Sunday copy-pasting from spreadsheets.

5. Data they can trust

Version conflicts, formula errors, and missing records undermine confidence. TPDs want to know that the data they’re looking at is accurate and up to date.

6. Something built for their world

Generic project management tools don’t understand the language of anaesthetics education. TPDs want software that speaks in sessions, trainees, ARCP panels, and deaneries — not tickets, sprints, and kanban boards.

What we built

Exogi is designed around these exact needs. Not because we guessed at them, but because we’ve lived them. Every feature was built to solve a real problem that programme leads face every week.