medical career development

Manoj Ramachandran
BSc (Hons) MBBS (Hons) MRCS (Eng) FRCS (Tr&Orth)

Manoj Ramachandran currently works in the Paediatric Orthopaedic and Limb Reconstruction Units at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. He is also an Honorary Lecturer for University College London. Previously, he has successfully developed and directed career development courses aimed at the transition from house officer to SHO and from SHO to SpR for Advanced Medical Courses (AMC) from 2001-2005.

He has also directed ‘Training the Trainer’ courses known as ‘Changing the Culture’ in the Oxford region between 1999 and 2002 and has run several surgical courses aimed at final year medical students and MRCS, again for AMC between 2001 and 2005.

He is the author of seven books and is currently working on two further books. Together with Marc Gladman, he is currently working on a portfolio of books specifically written to provide career guidance through MMC training.

He has published 20 original papers, 30 abstracts and delivered 20 presentations (most of which were at International level) to expert learned societies.