03/16/2016    

SUCCESS TIPS FROM THE MASTERS

Bret Ribotsky: If the MD degree is not the way to achieve parity, how do we achieve it while maintaining our DPM degree?

 

Dr. Jon Hultman

 

Jon Hultman: To get the MD degree, we would have to convert podiatry schools to medical schools and they would have to be accredited by LCME. None of our schools want to do this. The reality is that the end product of our education and training is indistinguishable; thus the license a DPM gets should be the same as the license an MD gets.

 

The barrier we hit with a plenary license today is not how medicine is practiced; each provider specializes in an area of medicine, and the CMA (California Medical Association) realizes this. What we want is our license to be equivalent regarding payers and other physicians; and that it's known that we have a license based on a review of strong educational parameters by credible educators who have looked at our training and have agreed that this should be our license. 

 

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