10/21/2025    Rod Tomczak, DPM, MD, EdD

Recent COTH ACGME Survey Results (Alan MacGill, DPM)

Dr. MacGill, thank you for the recent COTH survey
you shared with us. I have some questions perhaps
you could answer before the profession places
credibility in what you shared with us.

1. What is your position within the Council of
Teaching Hospitals? I do not see your name listed
as a member of the Council.

2. Who commissioned this survey? Did you take up
this task by yourself? Did you send out a survey to
every podiatric residency director in the U.S.?

3. How many times did you send it to whomever you
sent it to? Was it sent once, twice or three
times? The response rate is rather low to place
credence in any survey, especially one of such
importance. How much time was given between the
time you sent the survey and when you submitted
your report to PM News?

4. Were the results of your survey reviewed by
COTH members before they were sent to PM News? If
so, who reviewed the results and was your report
edited by COTH member(s)?

5. Could you please send a copy of the complete
survey instrument to me through PM News? I am sure
the profession is interested and would like a
chance for the to peruse the entire survey and
response? It seems unfair to cherry pick some
responses and neglect others.

6. I find serious threats to the Internal and
External Validity of this survey and would
appreciate seeing the entire survey including the
open-ended responses along with the multiple-
choice responses.

7. Does every person this survey was sent to have
a financial interest in a residency program, and
if so, could you share that with the readers of PM
News? The mean and median amounts should suffice.

8. If you are involved with COTH in a capacity
other than as a residency director, what is that
position? Every bit of information is crucial to
the real stakeholders of the future of podiatry.
They are all the members of the profession who are
concerned at this critical time as was voiced by
Ross Feinman, DPM in the same edition of PM News
as your report.

9. In your opinion, why do you think the response
to your survey instrument was so poor, especially,
if as residency directors, they are being
compensated?

10.I anticipate this request will be published by
PM News and believe faithful readers of PM News
eagerly await your reply.

Rod Tomczak, DPM, MD, EdD, Columbus, OH

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