SCTS EDUCATION INTERACTIVE WEBINAR - PROFICIENCY BASED
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We encourage you to consider joining this webinar on the research and evidence on proficiency in surgical practice and training, we're sure it will stimulate you to reflect on our established practices.
'Training must be more than an (interesting) educational experience'
The webinar will be led by Professor Tony Gallagher, visiting Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium (Faculty of Medicine) and Ulster University (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences), Director of Research and Skill Development at Orsi Academy & Founder of Proficiency Based Progression Methodology.
Biography
Anthony G Gallagher Ph.D., D.Sc. MAE
email : ag.gallagher@ogcmetrics.com
Dr. Anthony Gerald Gallagher is currently Director of Research and Learning at the ORSI Academy in Melle (i.e., robotic surgery centre), Belgium and Visiting Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium (Faculty of Medicine) and Ulster University (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences). Before that he was Director of Research and Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning in the ASSERT Centre, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork, Ireland. He completed a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Psychology (1984 -1988) at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown in Northern Ireland and his Ph.D. at the Trinity College Dublin (1989 – 1992). In 2013 he was awarded his D.Sc. (Ulster University) for his published work on ‘Assessment and training of surgeons and physicians for image guided medicine’. He was elected a Member of the prestigeous Academia Europea (The Academy of Europe (founded by the Royal Society)) in 2021.
He was the first academic from Ireland to be awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship and during this time worked with Prof. Richard Satava at Yale University (2000 – 2001). In 2011 along with his colleague Prof. Gerry O’Sullivan (University College Cork) he completed an authored book, Fundamentals of Surgical Simulation; Principles and Practices which was published in 2011. His principal research interests currently include simulation based training for robot assisted surgery and minimally invasive surgery, endovascular interventions, pacemaker implantation and validation of medical devices for training and assessment. During his time at Yale he was the scientific lead in the first group to demonstrate in a prospective, randomized double-blinded study the power of virtual reality training for improved operating room performance. In 2015 he gave The Hamilton Russell Memorial Lecture, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), Perth, Australia as well as being the International Education Visitor, RACS. At NextMed/Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR22), Los Angeles, California, USA he was presented with the 20th Satava Award for his contributions to advanced technologies in medicine.
Over the past decade he has led the global paradigm shift in simulation based training for the acquisition surgical and procedureal skills. He has developed state of the art methodology for “procedure characterisation”, metric development for the assessment and training of procedure-based skills and validation of the effectivenes of this approach. In a recent systematic review and meta analysis of prospective, randomized and blinded clinical trials using this approach for training surgocal and procedural skills (publsihed in Annals of Surgery, Mazzone et al.,) this approach (proficiency-based progression) demonstrated a 60% reduction in intra-operative performance errors in comparison to the quality assured conventional training. Metronic are in discussions with ORSI Acadmey to use this approaxch forthe roll-out of their new surgical robot.
His publications on simulation, competence and proficiency-based progression have initiated a paradigm shift in, not alone training of health professionals, but development of an integrated approach to procedural healthcare. With different clinical disciplines (surgery, interventional cardiology, interventional neuro radiology, anaethetsist, nursing and now robotic surgery) and leading simulation (e.g., Mentice Lims and Things, Sawbones etc) and medical device manufacturers e.g,, J&J, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, etc) Tony has developed a model for procedure characterisation which has become the gold standard for major procedural advances. Tony leads the ORI Academy research & Learning Group which collectively offers core competences and expertise in Technology Enhanced Learning; Health Information Systems; Human Computer Interface’ Clinical Practice; Ergonomics; Patient Safety; Health Services Research; Quality Improvement and Implementation Science. This range of expertise (perhaps uniquely) enables a comprehensive, system-based approached to the study of the overall utility of medical procedures and better and safer ways to train clinicians to perform them.
In a study published by the Journal of Surgical Education, on the 100 most cited articles in the area of surgical education Dr Gallagher achieved the greatest number of first author publications in the top 100, authored two of the top ten ranked articles including the number one cited paper “Virtual Reality Training improves Operating Room Performance”. In total he co-authored eight of the top 100 articles and his publications underpinned three of the institutions he worked at (i.e., Queens University Belfast (UK), Yale University (USA) and Emory University (USA) being ranked in the the top 20 Institutions with the highest number of articles in the top 100). Dr. Gallagher is considered one of the leading exponents and international experts in the world for the design, application and validation of (VR) simulaion in medicine.