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About the authors
Stephen McGuire
Stephen is Oxford Medical’s Head of Development and a practicing optometrist. Before concentrating
upon career development for doctors, he worked as Clinical Development Manager at Dollond & Aitchison,
being responsible for the recruitment, development, standards of compliance and performance of
optometrists. This included a focus on communication and team development between clinicians and the
various associated healthcare professionals they had to interact with in their day to day practice.
About Oxford Medical Training
Who are we?
Oxford Medical Training is the UK’s leading provider of high quality career development for
doctors of all levels, supporting thousands each year through our training events, programmes
and materials. We specialise in advancing leadership, management, communication, teaching
and interview skills in the medical environment. Since 2004, we have gained a formidable
reputation for preparing doctors for any forthcoming interview via our medical interview skills
courses, which we continue to this day.
Why do we do what we do?
We believe that the ongoing advancement of a doctor’s skills has mutual benefit for your patients,
your colleagues, your organisation and ultimately our communities.
• Our Teach the Teacher courses help to ensure that doctors are equipped with the skills to
support others in developing both culturally and technically.
• Our medical leadership and management training is focused on organising both yourself
and others to overcome the many obstacles to the delivery of outstanding patient care in
the modern world with finite resources.
• Our Consultant Interview and ST/CT Interview preparation courses succeed by
developing your ability to present the very best version of yourself in order to achieve the
best role for your future practice
• Our communication skills courses for doctors develop your ability to hear and to be heard
clearly by both your patients and your teams
The ultimate impact on patients, teams and organisations is always a key focus of our work.
How do we do this?
We deliver our training to through a variety of methods including:
• open and commissioned courses
• online distance learning programmes
• one-to-one online consultations
• guidebooks available in printed or digital versions
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