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02/13/2014 Thomas Graziano, DPM, MD
Time for a Degree Change (Robert Bijak, DPM)
I am sorry to disappoint you Dr. Bijak, but unfortunately a degree change for podiatry will not happen in our lifetimes. I would like to echo a previous post by Dr, Wunderlich, who stated that when he was a 1st year student in 1992 there was talk of just that idea. Well, when I was a student graduating in 1982 there was "serious" talk about the same topic.
Did you ever watch a soap opera? You can come back to the show years later and the same characters and content will be there. Well it's the same with podiatry. The powers that be in this profession lack the experience to assimilate into medicine. This is not a criticism, it's an observation. They haven't realized that podiatric and medical education are not mirror images. One doesn't just turn a key and things magically change.
Let's make changes that are possible. Follow the lead of dentistry. In dentistry, those who wish to be oral surgeons go on to do a residency in oral surgery. General dentists refer to those who have that expertise. In podiatry, we're almost mandating that everyone be a podiatric surgeon with three years of residency. It's ridiculous. Not everyone is meant to be surgeon. Every podiatric graduate should, however, have a post- graduate internship so that they can later work in concert with their medical colleagues. Let's stop the posturing and effectively train podiatric students to be podiatrists. It appears that we've lost our focus in that regard. Thomas Graziano, DPM, MD, Clifton, NJ, TGrazi6236@aol.com
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