08/06/2013    Unmatched Podiatric Graduate

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

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, its also supposed
to make sure the colleges do not take 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 unmatched students
should look at why they did not match, as if to
suggest that it was their own shortcoming for
not matching, and not because they were misled
by colleges that never disclosed that there was
a concern that a significant number of graduates
would not get a residency. It's like blaming the
poor woman who gets raped not on the rapist, but
rather on she herself for wearing a short
dress!

I know there were many podiatrists from past
decades who were unable to obtain a residency,
however, they could complete a preceptorship and
get a license and obtain board certification.
The APMA has taken away this pathway while at
the same time doing nothing to ensure that all
qualified graduates are able to get a residency.
This is unconscionable.

The fact that schools do not warn incoming
students that there is a residency crisis most
certainly should be considered a crime. If I
sell my house without informing them that the
roof leaks or the basement floods every spring,
I am legally responsible. Dr. Gastwirth and the
various greedy college deans are no different
than the CEOs from companies like Enron, who
claimed to have had no knowledge of what was
going to happen to investors’ money - they
received life sentences nonetheless. In this
case though, the victims were much more
vulnerable in that the money they invested was
generally borrowed!

Unmatched Podiatric Graduate

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