What TPDs actually need from a teaching management platform

What we keep hearing

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 tell us matters most.

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, feedback, and trainee records — all in one place, without chasing people for updates.

Exogi provides a central hub where events are submitted, approved, and published. Attendance and feedback data flows in automatically. Everything lives in the same system.

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 for months. Digital attendance capture — linked directly to trainee records — is the most requested feature we hear about.

Exogi sends attendees a prompt before sessions end, asking them to confirm their attendance. The record is created automatically and linked to their teaching log. No paper, no chasing, no data entry.

3. Visibility into what’s actually happening

“I want to be able to log in and immediately see what teaching is being delivered across the programme.” TPDs need visibility into what’s happening — which sites are running sessions, how often, and what feedback looks like. Not a spreadsheet they have to manually update, but a view that reflects the current state of play.

Exogi collects attendance and feedback data across every session. Over time, this builds a picture of teaching activity across sites, topics, and organisers.

4. Reports that don’t take a weekend

School board submissions, deanery reviews, annual summaries — all require data that’s scattered across multiple sources. TPDs want to summarise a year’s teaching in minutes, not spend their Sunday copy-pasting from spreadsheets.

Exogi lets you export attendance and feedback data to CSV for your own analysis. The data is always there, always current, and always in the same format.

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.

When data is captured automatically — attendance confirmed by the trainee, feedback submitted directly — there’s no transcription step where errors creep in. The data is as accurate as the people who entered it.

6. Something that understands medical education

Generic project management tools don’t understand the language of medical education. TPDs want software that speaks in sessions, attendees, feedback, and teaching programmes — not tickets, sprints, and kanban boards.

Exogi is built specifically for teaching programme management. Every concept in the system — events, sessions, organisers, attendees, feedback — maps directly to how teaching programmes actually work.

What Exogi does today

Exogi handles event management, attendance tracking, feedback surveys, ICS calendar feeds, automated newsletters, and data exports. Each organisation operates in a fully isolated environment with its own database.

If you want to see the product, sign up free at app.exogi.co.uk or get in touch for a demo.