Anthony G. Gallagher, Flux Learning Ltd

Show Me The Evidence

Education EN ↓ 7 episodes

Most training is sold on confidence. Show Me The Evidence is built on data. In every episode we take a single study, clinical trial, or systematic review and work through what it found, how it was designed, and what it means for the way we teach and assess skill. We focus on metrics-based training and proficiency-based progression, the approach that asks learners to demonstrate measurable competence before moving on, and we trace its results across surgical, medical, and professional education. This is a podcast for learning professionals and medical educators who want more than opinion. Expec...

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Anthony G. Gallagher, Flux Learning Ltd

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Dr Ruben DeGroote, From Proficiency to Wisdom in Surgical Training 03.07.2026 1:00:05

Show Me the Evidence Guest: Dr Ruben De Groote Topic: From Time to Competence: Proficiency-Based Progression and the Reinvention of Robotic Surgical Training Episode Summary In this episode, Professor Tony Gallagher sits down with Dr Ruben De Groote, consultant urologist at OLV in Aalst, Belgium, CEO of 4Health and its digital learning platform Surgquest, and the researcher behind a recently compl...

Göran Malmberg, Mentice: Why Simulation Without Metrics Falls Short 28.06.2026 1:02:38

Guest: Göran Malmberg, Group CEO and President of Mentice AB (Gothenburg, Sweden), the world leader in physics-based virtual reality simulation for endovascular therapies Host: Professor Anthony G Gallagher Topic: Why Simulation Without Metrics Falls Short, and the Unsettled Question of Who Owns Medical Training Episode Summary In this episode, Professor Tony Gallagher is joined by Göran Malmberg,...

Dr Richard Satava: The Science of Surgical Training- Time, Profit and Surgical Simulation 22.06.2026 1:10:46

The evidence that simulation and proficiency-based training produce better, safer surgeons has been settled for over two decades. So why has surgery been so slow to take it up? Professor Tony Gallagher talks to surgical simulation pioneer Dr Richard "Rick" Satava, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Washington and a former DARPA programme manager, about the study they ran together a...

Dr. Richard Angelo: From Apprenticeship to Proficiency — Rethinking How We Train Surgeons 29.05.2026 48:21

Episode 4 — Dr. Richard Angelo Guest Dr. Richard (Rick) Angelo — Arthroscopic surgeon based in Seattle; former President of the Arthroscopic Association of North America (AANA). Holds a PhD in proficiency-based progression training. Host Tony (relationship with Rick spans ~15 years, originating from a chance meeting at a conference in Sweden) Episode Overview A deep-dive conversation on the fundam...

From the FDA to the operating theatre: how proficiency rewrote the rules of surgical training 25.05.2026 46:22

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 describin...

The VR-OR Study — Proof That Simulation Training Transfers to the Operating Room & The Methodology of Proficiency-Based Progression 25.05.2026 53:30

Guest: Professor Anthony G Gallagher Topic: The VR-OR Study — Proof That Simulation Training Transfers to the Operating Room & The Methodology of Proficiency-Based Progression Episode Summary In this episode, Patrick Kiely sits down with Professor Tony Gallagher to examine two landmark papers that transformed simulation-based surgical training. The first — the 2002 Yale VR-OR study — provided...

The Crisis in Surgical Training & Proficiency-Based Progression (PBP) 23.05.2026 1:04:36

Guest: Professor Anthony G Gallagher Topic: The Crisis in Surgical Training & Proficiency-Based Progression (PBP) Episode Summary In this inaugural episode, Patrick Kiely sits down with Professor Tony Gallagher — founder of Proficiency-Based Progression and one of the world's leading researchers in surgical skills assessment and simulation-based training — to examine a deeply uncomfortable tru...