07/12/2024    

APMA NEWS

APMA Members Asked to Vote on Revised Definition of Podiatry

 

Active APMA members have been e-mailed the following 2024 Referendum Question: Please indicate your approval of revising the definition of podiatric medicine approved through the 1991 referendum as “Podiatric medicine is that profession of the health sciences concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the human foot, ankle, and their governing and related structures, including local manifestations of systemic conditions, by all appropriate systems and means” to now be defined as:

 

“Podiatric medicine and surgery is the specialty that addresses the diagnosis and treatment of pathologies and conditions of the leg, with special emphasis in the diagnosis and treatment of the foot, ankle and their governing and related structures of the leg by any and all means. Osseous surgical treatment is limited to that part of the leg at or distal to the tibial tubercle.”