The Christ Hospital Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Residency Curriculum
During our 3-year residency, residents spend about 24 months on Podiatric Medicine and Surgery service. This service includes four core podiatric surgeons, additional podiatric surgeons, and an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery.
In addition, all podiatric residents take part in seeing podiatric patients in the residents' clinic. The clinic provides the residents an opportunity to prevent, diagnose and manage diseases, disorders and injuries of patients by nonsurgical and surgical means. Residents have full access to the hospital to order any all labs and diagnostic tests that enhance their patient's workup and their own learning experience.
Rotations
The other 12 months will be divided among these rotations:
Call Schedule
The chief resident creates the on-call schedule that is divided equally among the residents. The resident on-call assigns surgical cases as needed. Double scrubbing is encouraged. If multiple residents are present, the senior resident decides which procedures they want/need to log.
Didactics
Weekly Didactics
Cadaver Labs
Journal Clubs
Research
Residents are required to participate in the Resident Poster presentation day at The Christ Hospital each October. The poster must follow the same guidelines for submission to a state or regional conference such as ACFAS or APMA. At minimum, the poster can be a case presentation, however this can only be used as an individual project. More in depth projects can be used as a group project, if approved by the program director.