09/03/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY CRISIS) - PART 2

RE: I Want to Work as a Podiatrist (Ivar Roth, DPM, MPH)

From: Dale Feinberg, DPM

I was amused at Dr. Roth's suggestion that all non-surgical based podiatrists send "qualified foot surgeons" all their surgical cases, and that possibly these "surgeons" would refer their non-surgical cases back to those "lesser" trained DPMs. He does not have his facts straight when he compares us to dentistry, where specialty trained dentists like oral surgeons are by law not permitted to do general dentistry. If I want to be insulted and belittled, I can just have a friendly conversation with my local orthopedic surgeon. But then again, he might actually give me a referral for nail debridement.

Dale Feinberg, DPM, CPed, Yuma, AZ, hd5bl@aol.com

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08/06/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY CRISIS) - PART 2

RE: Unmatched Residency Placements Currently Stand at 80 (Richard Gosnay, DPM)

From: Unmatched Podiatric Graduate (KSUCPM)

Dr. Gosnay’s comment that the APMA or CPME are not to blame for the residency shortage is absolutely outrageous. The CPME is not just an accreditation arm of the APMA; it's also supposed to make sure the colleges do not take in too many students. The CPME approved the addition of a new podiatry college at the same time that it recognized the likelihood that a residency shortage was on the horizon.

At the same time, as the latest podiatry college was matriculating its charter class, the CPME allowed at least one other college to take more students than they were approved to take. Dr. Gosnay suggests that...

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