08/26/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY CRISIS) -PART 1

RE: Residency CONCLAVE Cancelled

From Bret Ribotsky, DPM

Organized podiatry will not participate in the CONCLAVE (Collaborative-Organized-Need-to-Combat-Lack-in-Advanced-Education) that I suggested in early August to deal with the residency crisis. I received a letter signed by Robert Yoho, DPM, AACPM Chairman; Jeffrey Robbins, DPM, COTH Chairman; Gregg Young, DPM, Balance Committee Chair; James Stavosky, DPM, ABPM President; Randall Dei, DPM,  ABPS President; Kathleen Satterfield, DPM, ACFAOM President; Jordan Grossman, DPM, ACFAS President; Matthew Garoufalis, DPM, APMA President; Stephen Schmid, DPM, APMA-Young Physicians; Kyle Duncan, APMSA President; David Yeager, DPM, ASPS Chair; and Timothy Ford, CPM CPME Chair.

Without the stakeholders participating, creating an implementable plan is a long shot. Thus, I am cancelling the conclave scheduled. I look forward to other suggestions.

Bret Ribotsky, DPM, Boca Raton, FL,  ribotsky@gmail.com

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08/06/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY CRISIS) -PART 1B

RE: Unmatched Residency Placements Currently Stand at 80

From: Joel Lang, DPM

For the past few weeks, I have read with sadness and disbelief that our profession has created a crisis in which as many as 20% of our successful graduates may never be unable to practice their profession, destined to a life of insurmountable debt and inevitable despair.

The reactive postings about this tragedy have varied from desperation, blaming our leadership and our corporate hierarchy, and even blaming the victims for not being creative enough to solve their own problems. It’s a little like blaming rape victims for...

Editor's note: Dr. Lang's extended-length letter can be read here.

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07/24/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY CRISIS) -PART 1B

RE: Unmatched Residency Placements Currently Stand at 86 (Unmatched Podiatric Graduate)

From: Robert Kornfeld, DPM

I am quite amazed at Unmatched Podiatric Graduate's "polite restraint" when, in fact, there is certainly cause for outright rage. Instead of going on medication to deal with the stress of being "left out in the cold", this thoughtful and centered DPM should be in a residency program. Am I surprised that administrators have turned their back on this and all of the other unmatched DPMs? Absolutely not. I have been in podiatry my entire life (my father was a 1950 graduate of NYCPM).

I am a 1980 graduate of NYCPM. My experience in podiatry has been excellent personally (because...

Editor's note: Dr. Kornfeld's extended-length letter can be read here.

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07/24/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY CRISIS) -PART 1A

RE: Unmatched Residency Placements Currently Stand at 86 (Unmatched Podiatric Graduate)

From: Robert Scott Steinberg, DPM

I hope while everyone from the APMA is whooping-it-up in Party Town USA, that someone grabs a microphone and demands answers. Give the APMA the foot, if need be.

Robert Scott Steinberg, DPM, Schaumburg, IL, Doc@FootSportsDoc.com