RCP Resident Doctor Committee

Dr Badu-Boateng was elected to the RCP Resident Doctor Committee in 2019 as one of the internal medicine trainee (IMT) representatives. He is an RAF medical officer currently working as a cardiology ST4 in Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Thames Valley Deanery.

Charles qualified from King’s College London Medical School (GKT) in 2016 with an intercalated degree in physiology. He completed foundation and IMT training at Frimley Park Hospital as well as military officer training at RAF College Cranwell.

He is interested in medical research and education as means of improving patient care. He enjoys working with the rest of the committee to positively shape the future of physician training nationally. 

After studying a degree in psychology with professional placement in Cardiff University, she completed graduate entry medicine at Swansea University. She then completed all her postgraduate training, including starting specialty training in geriatric medicine, in South Wales.

Alexandra is passionate about improving the care of older adults and is actively involved in service improvement delivery, teaching and management.  She is currently studying for an MD at Swansea University, investigating improving the interface between community and acute care, focusing on service delivery and pre-hospital medicine in older, frailer adults. 

She has developed multiple teaching programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate trainees and is an active trainee representative on multiple local committees. She hopes to improve links between the RCP and its members in Wales. She enjoys travelling and gluten-free baking in her spare time.

She is currently working as a palliative medicine specialist registrar in the London / Kent Surrey Sussex Deanery.

Dr Gowland qualified through the graduate entry medical programme at GKT School of Medical Education at King’s College London in 2016, and completed her academic foundation programme in neurosciences at King’s College Hospital.

Prior to studying medicine, she worked in the UK Civil Service and as a research assistant in neuropsychology.

At the start of 2022, Dr Gwenter moved to the Wessex Deanery to start gastroenterology and general internal medicine specialty training.

Dr Gwenter has been passionate about representing the interests of trainees for some time, serving as the student representative for both her undergraduate and then medical degrees. During core medical training, she was an RCP associate college tutor and alongside this chaired a local junior doctor forum. Dr Gwenter was elected to the RCP Resident Doctor Committee in 2022, and is also the current British Society of Gastroenterology representative for Wessex.

Dr Gwenter has an interest in medical education and medical leadership and completed a postgraduate certificate of medical education in 2017. 

She is excited to continue to advocate for trainees within her role at the RCP. Given the challenges faced moving forward with the new curriculum, trainee input is vital to shape future directives. Dr Gwenter is keen to collaborate to find innovative solutions to optimise training opportunities, especially in the context of considerable service pressures existing prior to and as a result of COVID-19. She is particularly eager to explore trainee wellbeing given the increased awareness of burnout within medicine. Finally, Dr Gwenter wishes to be involved with the processes which promote equity in relation to recruitment to both medical training and specialty training.

He has served on the Resident Doctor Committee since 2019 and has helped to set up the RCP Trainee research collaboratives portal to facilitate medical trainee research opportunities.

He joined the Resident Doctor Committee in 2022 and is aiming to advocate for trainees, focusing on practical issues such as the cost of training and the educational experience of medical specialist registrars.

Having recently completed a PhD in cell biology, he has taken up a post as a clinical lecturer and is also keen to promote academic medicine as part of his role. He would like to hear from any doctor in the region who is experiencing difficulties in postgraduate training.

She graduated in Leeds and moved to London for foundation and core training. In 2018 she moved to Bristol for specialty training after a year working in Malawi. Caitlin has a PGCert in medical education and hopes to develop systems to support doctors through their stages of training, both full time and less than full time.

Caitlin has taken a break from training and is doing a PhD in airways disease in North Bristol.

Caitlin hopes to improve links between the RCP and its members in the south west, but also to improve the curriculum for trainees nationally.

Amy was elected as the internal medicine trainee representative in 2019.  

She completed her foundation training at the Whittington and North Middlesex University Hospitals in London in 2017 and is currently an IMT1 trainee at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Prior to this she did a year as an intensive care clinical fellow in central London, while also completing the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education at University College London and the RCP. 

Amy has a keen interest in education and training and is passionate about teaching and improving training opportunities for doctors locally and on a national level.

He obtained his MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh in 2014 and passed his MRCP in 2017. He has been working as a higher specialty trainee in acute internal medicine and general internal medicine at East Midlands since 2019 and is currently working as chief registrar for emergency specialist medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. 

Alongside his work at University Hospitals of Leicester, he is currently working as a specialist trainee representative for acute internal medicine at East Midlands Deanery, sitting as a member of the Education Committee and Quality Improvement Committee of the Society for Acute Medicine, UK and is currently doing an MSc in medical education at the University of Nottingham. He also holds a PGCert in critical care.

He has special interests in point of care ultrasound and echo, medical education and leadership. His biggest career aims are developing acute medicine as a specialty and enhancing the state of medical education among the developing countries of the world. He works voluntarily with a group of doctors in Bangladesh, helping to develop acute medicine as a specialty there and has authored a book called Acute Medicine in Ward for the doctors of Bangladesh, three editions of which have been published so far. 

She has worked in West Yorkshire since graduating from Bristol Medical School in 2012. She has also experienced life as a medical registrar in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Catherine is enthusiastic about medical education, having previously held the role of RCP associate college tutor in mid-Yorkshire. During the pandemic she collaborated with the Northern deanery to produce a virtual respiratory SCE teaching programme. She has represented doctors locally at each stage of her training and is currently the general internal medicine representative for Yorkshire. Catherine joined the Resident Doctor Committee in May 2021. She was elected deputy chair in July 2023.

Catherine is a mum of two and has been working less than full time since December 2019.

Her main drive to be involved with the RCP is wanting to improve the trainee experience, continue her interest in medical education, support doctors and improve opportunities for flexible working.

He is a neurology registrar and has recently returned to full-time clinical training following an out-of-programme period in which he completed a PhD in clinical neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. His research focused on longitudinal modelling in progressive supranuclear palsy, as a foundation for better powered and more inclusive clinical trials utilising clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging biomarkers from multicentre cohorts. Dr Street also represents neurology trainees at the West Midlands Specialty Training Committee and is a personal academic tutor for the MBChB programme at the University of Birmingham.

Dr Street has a strong interest in improving trainee involvement in research and is a member of the NIHR Clinical Research Network Neurodegeneration National Specialty Group and the European Academy of Neurology Scientific Panel on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. He looks forward to bringing skills and experience from these positions to his new role on the Resident Doctor Committee panel.