{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Show Me The Evidence","title":"Serge Boveda: Simulation, PBP and the Future of EP Training","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2822,"description":"Professor Anthony Gallagher talks to Professor Serge Boveda, co-head of department at Clinique Pasteur in Toulouse, principal investigator for the European Commission grant for ERIS (the European Research Institute on Simulation) and president-elect of the European Heart Rhythm Association. Serge trained in the early 1990s, when interventional electrophysiology was brand new and almost nobody in Europe could teach it. He explains how the specialty and its training have changed since then, how fellows learn today, and why he set up ERIS to train the next generation on technologies that change faster than any university syllabus.\nThe conversation then turns to the 2026 EHRA scientific statement on digitally assisted learning, which Serge led and on which Tony was a co-author. The statement puts Proficiency-Based Progression (PBP) at the centre of the proposed training and certification pathway. Serge explains why simulation is a tool and not a magic bullet, why every trainee must be assessed before they touch a patient, why the Halstedian model needs modernising rather than burying, and how universities, scientific societies and device manufacturers should share responsibility for training.\nChapters\n0:00 Introduction\n0:53 What is an electrophysiologist?\n2:26 How Serge trained, and why his training is not finished\n5:30 How electrophysiology practice has changed since the 1990s\n9:16 How the training of fellows has changed\n11:28 ERIS: the European Research Institute on Simulation\n15:17 Is simulation a tool or a magic bullet?\n17:37 Lessons from the first year of ERIS\n21:06 The EHRA scientific statement on digitally assisted learning\n26:50 Where the PBP idea came from\n29:17 Was he surprised by how strongly the statement backed PBP?\n32:13 Is the Halstedian training paradigm dead?\n35:50 Should trainees be assessed?\n38:19 Microcredentials\n41:27 Instructions for use and the role of device manufacturers\n46:35 Closing\nKey studies discussed\nEHRA scientific statement on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JPxx16guuIWtjNqUkS-VeCJVeP1R-gkQQ7xD4SsyqqM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZGMy/MjkyM2UxYTkzZmM5/ZjVkMmI4MzAzOTM0/YTIzYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}