From the FDA to the operating theatre: how proficiency rewrote the rules of surgical training
Guest: Professor Anthony G Gallagher Host: Patrick Kiely
Episode focus: two landmark studies, the 2004 JAMA carotid stenting paper and the Copernicus arthroscopy trial
Episode summary
Professor Tony Gallagher, the founder of Proficiency-Based Progression (PBP), joins Patrick Kiely to revisit two studies that changed how we think about surgical competence.
The first is the 2004 JAMA paper describing a closed-door meeting at which the US Food and Drug Administration agreed, for the first time, that simulation training should form part of how doctors are approved to perform a procedure. The…
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