02/17/2021    Steven Kravitz, DPM

CPME 320 and Wound Care Rotations (Bryan J. Roth, DPM)

I like to take the opportunity to make brief
comments regarding Dr. Roth’s article on wound
care rotations in the new CPME 320 rewrite and
training in podiatric medicine. He is spot on
target and makes a very good logical argument for
the rationale to ensure that going forward all
podiatrists are trained in residency training
programs in the basic concepts of wound healing.

Wound healing has taken on a different form for
podiatric medicine and allowed it to become
mainstream, fully engaged with equal parity across
the field, for treatment in our area of anatomical
special specialty and provide full services for
same. I mentioned an article published in this
newsletter a couple weeks ago that for the
subspecialty of wound healing parity is there.
Wound healing is the only subspecialty were
podiatrists can be certified with same exam as our
allopathic counterparts, available only and
specifically to MD, DPM, and DO.


While parity found in wound healing may not yet be
the current standard of care in all aspects of
podiatric medicine it is nonetheless the model
that serves a purpose all of medicine can be
striving for. Dr. Dan Davis, past president of the
APMA as stated from the podium multiple times and
written in this publication that certification
exam in wound healing offered by Academy of
Physicians in Wound Healing (and its certification
exam Council for Medical Education and Testing)
are the model for the future going forward.
Something all medicine will one day emulate.

While he rightfully describes this groundbreaking
I foresee the day when this will be customary
throughout medicine. We need to establish training
programs that demonstrate our skills in order for
that to occur. The first step is long past due and
is described nicely with Dr. Roth’s article
February 15 in this publication. It is about time
wound healing take its rightful place for all
graduate training of podiatric physicians.

Steven Kravitz, DPM, Winston-Salem, NC

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