03/15/2014    Richard Orlandi, DPM

Query Laws and Rules for Florida License

It is a very unfortunate position that the Florida Podiatric Medical Association (FPMA) has decided to take. They failed to step up to the plate, go to bat and cover Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine’s shortfall for fellow podiatrists who were left in the dark. What do they do? Barry University had failed to notify FL licensees prior to terminating its (decades-long) state-required CME home study courses.

The FPMA didn’t budge. They arbitrarily chose a
date 30 days in advance (for taking the required
Laws and Rules home study CME) of the biennial
renewal without notifying all FL licensees.

The FPMA told me that they can’t possibly process
all the license renewals after March 1, 2014. That
begs the question: if there are so many
podiatrists in this situation, isn’t there an
obvious problem? Or conversely, if there are only
a few podiatrists in this situation, why not just
help them out and let them take the 1-hour home
study course? Keep in mind that when I contacted
them, there were still 3 and half weeks to the end
of the biennium It would take all of 45 seconds
to grade my 10 answers.

Maybe an employee can put in a little overtime in
order to complete the applications? How about
hiring a part-time employee to help out in order
to get the state licenses renewed on time? Yet
every time I call the FPMA, Mr. Higgins the
“supervisor” is out to lunch. Mr. Higgins has
plenty of time for lunch every day, but yet not 45
seconds it would take to grade my 10 answer Laws
and Rules answer sheet so I can renew my
professional license. It disturbs me to think how
this is being horribly and irresponsibly handled
with absolutely no effort to help a fellow
podiatrist. How ironic that this is the state
PODIATRIC society that we are talking about. If
the FPMA won’t render help to their own kind, who
will? I am very disappointed in the FPMA.

Despite repeated requests at the FPMA office for
taking the test for the single 1-hour required CME
Laws and Rules, the answer sheet which consists of
10 answers they simply do not want to make any
effort to help. What an unfortunate situation
completely disregarded by the Florida Podiatric
Medical Association.

This was the Florida Podiatric Medical
Association’s chance to shine. Instead, they
closed the doors to their own podiatrists who were
in need of their help to simply fulfill state
license renewal requirement which they have
readily available.

Richard Orlandi, DPM, Babylon, NY,
683sbr@gmail.com

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