4 October 2017
By Bryan Smyth
bryan@TheCork.ie
Yesterday Richard L Angelo MD, defended his Ph.D. thesis “Proficiency-Based Progression Training: Quality Assured Preparation for the Practice of Surgery”. Dr Angelo, is the first Candidate at UCC to complete and then defend his Ph.D. by Prior Published Work. He is a pioneer of arthroscopic surgery and is a Past President of the Arthroscopy Association of North America. In a series of studies, he developed, validated and then used a proficiency based progression approach to training surgical skills (pioneered by Prof. A Gallagher, ASSERT, UCC).
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