04/08/2026    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (AI AND PODIATRY)

RE:  AI and Podiatry (Allen M. Jacobs, DPM)

From: Bryan C. Markinson, DPM

 

The AI answer to the question of stepping up podiatry to the same level of recognition and respect as MD/DO is no surprise. The MD/DO world has stated for many years in many ways "just do what we had to do." That has always been the key to what has now reached a high level of discussion and controversy. Proclamations of equivalency from podiatry leadership has always fallen on deaf ears and frankly is not true.

 

I still maintain that putting a DPM student side-by-side with an MD and DO one, taking all the same tests and milestones, will create less students actually practicing podiatric medicine as their list of choices of specialty will be wide open.

 

Bryan C. Markinson, DPM, NY, NY

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04/09/2026    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (AI AND PODIATRY)

RE: AI and Podiatry (Bryan C. Markinson, DPM)

From: Robert Scott Steinberg, DPM

 

Then, as far as you are concerned, are striving for a plenary license and practicing podiatry mutually exclusive? Can't you see any value?

 

What about the general public not seeing any value in attending podiatry college?

 

Robert Scott Steinberg, DPM, Schaumburg, IL

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04/07/2026    

(RESPONSES/COMMENTS (AI AND PODIATRY)

RE: AI and Podiatry

From: Allen M. Jacobs, DPM

 

There was an old toy you may recall, the magic eight ball. You would ask a question then shake the ball. An answer would then float into a window (e.g.: yes, no, or try again). I feel as though the questions I ask AI regarding the future of podiatry are a recreation of the magic eight ball. Within seconds I am given an answer. It creates in me the very same feeling-certainly more scientific but nevertheless the very same feeling.

 

I posed the question to AI: how do we elevate the DPM degree to the same level of respect as an MD or DO degree? Click here to read the proposed answer.  

 

Allen M. Jacobs, DPM, St. Louis, MO