34 | FOREVER Keele
INSPIRING ALUMNI PROFILES
Dr Matthew Lancett
Assistant Team Doctor , Manchester United
After graduating from Keele ’ s School of Medicine in 2013 , Matthew worked in the NHS for a number of years before branching out into sports medicine . After stints locally with Port Vale and Stoke City , he ’ s now scored a job as the Assistant Team Doctor for Manchester United . Here he talks about his career in medicine , and how Keele prepared him for life at Old Trafford .
Keele was always going to be an option for me as my local university , and I have really fond memories of Keele life , living on a large campus with a great group of friends that I met along the way . After leaving Keele , I worked at the Royal Stoke Hospital , where I did my foundation training .
Shortly afterwards , I started training as a GP , but along the way and shortly after I qualified , one of my supervisors asked what I wanted to do . I mentioned sports medicine , and it turned out one of the clinicians at Royal Stoke was the team doctor at Port Vale . He took me under his wing and helped me to learn all about the role , and to do the relevant specialist courses , and things just progressed from there .
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