The OSCE-Aid Team

OSCE-Aid was founded in 2011 when a North London junior doctor and a final year medical student both had the dream of developing a reliable, peer-led website to help clinical medical students study for their exams and prepare for junior doctor life. Since then, OSCE-Aid has grown into an online community, with contributions from over 35 doctors and a online member headcount of almost 1000! Our tutors form a team, working together to create dynamic peer-edited online teaching materials and hold annual face-to-face revision courses.

We are always looking for enthusiastic new members of our team - see more here.


Lead Team


Dr. Celine Lakra: Co-Founder/Director

I am a Specialist Registrar in North Central London and originally graduated from UCL. Whilst studying in medical school, I produced proformas for the main stations that I felt could come up in our OSCE examinations. I wanted to share these with other medical students, because I felt they really helped me get through my OSCEs. I hope they help you as much as they did for me! ¦ see posts




Dr. Joel Cunningham: Co-Founder/Director

I graduated from UCL Medical School in 2012 and completed my Core Medical Training in North West London in 2016. After my own experience of Medical School Finals, I am very aware of the difficulties in finding simple but thorough resources to use during revision. I'm keen to promote OSCE-Aid.co.uk as a place where everyone can add their own thoughts to the resources as they revise. My focus is to make this website easy to use and easy to interact with and to build our online community. ¦ see posts




Dr. Jayne Ellis: Course Director

I am currently a Specialist Registrar working in North London. During my Foundation years I undertook several teacher training courses, ran a series of OSCE training programmes and became an OSCE examiner for St George's University. During my experience as a student, I have appreciated the importance of taking a systematic approach to OSCE preparation. I hope the OSCE-Aid material will give you a good overview of what to expect from your forthcoming OSCE examinations and help you to structure your revision accordingly. Good luck! ¦ see posts




Dr. Ina Schim van der Loeff: Course Director

I became involved with OSCE-Aid through creating the 'Presenting Tips' Small Group Workshop in 2016. I am currently working in East London as an FY2 doctor having graduated from the MBPhD Programme at UCL in 2015. My responsibilities include ensuring the OSCE-Aid course dates run smoothly and coordinating & preparing our tutors before & during the OSCE-Aid courses. ¦ see posts




Dr. Luke la Hausse de Lalouviere: Creative Director

With Ina, I also became involved with OSCE-Aid through creating the 'Presenting Tips' Small Group Workshop and am currently working in East London as an FY2 doctor having graduated from the MBPhD Programme at UCL in 2015. I have been involved in redesigning OSCE-Aids logo and images used online and in our course material. ¦ see posts




Dr. Alisha Allana: Online Managing Editor

I am currently a Core Trainee in Anaesthetics in London and originally graduated from UCL Medical School in 2014. OSCE-Aid proved to be a very useful and reliable resource for my own finals revision, and I am keen to further develop the website into a forum for both medical students and junior doctors to expand their knowledge and understanding of core medical topics. ¦ see posts




Online Team

Dr. Adam Monsell - Speciality Editor (Psychiatry)

Grade: Foundation Year 2
Deanery: North Central Thames
Areas of Interest: General Practice / Psychiatry
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Dr. Anita Lavery - Speciality Editor (Oncology)

Grade: CT2 Core Medical Training
Deanery: London
Areas of Interest: Oncology
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Dr. Clare Price - Speciality Editor (Radiology)

Grade: CT2 Core Medical Training
Deanery: North Central Thames
Areas of Interest: Radiology / Cardiology
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Dr. George Thornton - Speciality Editor (Cardiology)

Grade:CT2 Core Medical Training
Deanery: North West Thames
Areas of interest: Cardiology / Gastroenterology
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Dr. Lauren Richardson - Specialty Editor (Respiratory)

Grade: ST3 Geriatrics / General Medicine
Deanery: North West Thames
Areas of interest: Respiratory Medicine
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Dr. Louisa Churcher - Specialty Editor (Paediatricsc)

Grade: Senior Resident Medical Officer
Location: Sydney, Australia
Areas of interest: Paediatrics
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Dr. Naina McCann - Speciality Editor (Infectious Diseases)

Grade:CT2 Core Medical Training
Deanery: North Central Thames
Areas of interest: Respiratory / Infectious Diseases / Global Health
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Dr. Rachel Pilling - Podcast Co-Editor

Grade:Foundation Year 2
Deanery: North Central Thames
Areas of interest: Neurology
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Dr. Saaid Sufi - Speciality Editor (Acute Medicine)

Grade:CT1 Core Anaesthetics Training
Deanery: North West Thames
Areas of interest: Critical Care / Acute Medicine / Anaesthetics
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Miss Sara Khoyratty MRCS - Speciality Editor (Surgery)

Grade: ST4 Trauma & Orthopaedics, Stanmore Rotation
Deanery: North East Thames
Area of interest: Orthopaedics
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Dr. Scarlet Nazarian - Speciality Editor (Surgery)

Grade:CT1 Core Surgical Training
Deanery: London
Areas of interest: Surgery
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Tutor Team 2017

Dr. Stephen Auger - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Nick Aveyard - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Zillah Cargill - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Joel Cunningham - Tutor (2017))

Dr. David Ferguson - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Luke La Hausse de Lalouviere - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Abigail Masding - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Clare Price - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Sarah Thoukididou - Tutor (2017)

Dr. Marc Zentar - Tutor (2017)

last updated: 11/01/2017