The Podiatry Residency Program welcomed its first resident in 1989. From inception, 100% of the residents have successfully graduated from the program and successfully passed board-qualifying exams.
The Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME) has approved the program as a PMSR-36 with added credential in Reconstructive Rearfoot / Ankle Surgery.
For the first two years of the three-year program, much of the training is hospital based. While the emphasis is surgery, currently the first year resident rotates through:
- Anesthesia
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Orthopedics
- Pathology
- Radiology
- Rehab/PT
- Wound Care
Second year training includes:
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Internal Medicine
- Orthopedics
- Plastic Surgery
- Rheumotology
- Vascular
- Wound Care
Third year training includes more of the above with the addition of:
- Behavioral Medicine
- General Surgery
Residents spend time in private podiatry practices where patient care management and office management experience is obtained. The residents are exposed to many podiatric and non-podiatric teaching faculties to draw on a wide variety of clinical and surgical experiences.