arthur godfrey felice

Arthur G. Felice is a General Surgeon with a special interest in Clinical Methodology, Postgraduate Surgical Training and Assessment, Urology and Paediatric Surgery. He had his undergraduate training at the University of Malta, while he received his Postgraduate Surgical Training at St Luke’s Hospital Malta, Aberdeen Grampian Health Board, Inverness Highland Health Board and St. George’s Group, of Hospitals in London. Arthur G. Felice was awarded his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1976.

He is still practicing clinically in, but with a lower intensity than formerly. He is presently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta, having a strong teaching commitment. He formerly served as Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Malta, as Head of Surgery in the Malta NHS and as Head of the Malta Postgraduate Medical Training Programme. Until quite recently he was ESSQ Tutor in Surgical Sciences through a University of Edinburgh / Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh collaboration.

Within the UEMS he served in various positions since 2008, which include President of the European Board of Surgery, Vice-President of the UEMS Division of General Surgery, President of the Division of General Surgery, President of the General Surgery Board and Coordinator of several Focus Groups. He is also the main author of the European Training Requirements (ETR) for the Specialty of General Surgery (co-author Ms. Veronique Laloe). He has consistently served as an Examiner in the UEMS EBSQ General Surgery Examination since 2010 and was Chairperson of the Examination Board for this Examination for several years.

He has published more than sixty publications and presentations, including a single-author book: Tackling the Surgical Maze, ISBN 99932-672-2-8, which is an introduction to Clinical Methodology.