Overview
During your 3-year podiatry residency, you will spend about 24 months on Podiatric Medicine and Surgery service, which includes core podiatric surgeons, additional podiatric surgeons, and an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery.
In addition, you will take part in seeing podiatric patients in our clinic, which provides you with an opportunity to prevent, diagnose and manage diseases and disorders and injuries of patients by nonsurgical and surgical means. You have full access to the hospital to order labs and diagnostic tests that enhance your patients’ workup and your own learning experience.
Rotations
The other 12 months will be divided among these rotations:
- Anesthesiology
- Behavioral Science
- Emergency Medicine
- General Surgery
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine/Family Medicine
- Medical Imaging
- Office Management
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Pathology
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Plastic Surgery
- Vascular Surgery
- Wound Care
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
- Every week during/after resident clinic w/covering attending
Cadaver Labs
- Scheduled by the residents with the reps
Journal Clubs
- Scheduled by the residents with the reps and/or faculty
Research
As a resident, you are required to participate in the Resident Poster presentation day each October at our hospital. 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.
