Spanish podiatry, the residency trainning

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Dear colleagues, the podiatric medicine in Spain has a great development over the last 2o years. Recently we have stablish the University degree of 4 years, what we call grado en podologia, and what you call the pregrade.
Althoug we have a wide field of competences (surgery, orthopedics, farmacology prescription) the new generation of students, where I am included, are concerned about the necesity of a proper post grade learning, instead of a postgrades wich have a short duration (only one year), do not include a good training or not the same training that has a MD in the national health service for example (Spain speaking) or a US Podiaty.
And the problem is that we study for 4 complete years a pregrade, and we think that the pregrade training is quite good. (Subjects down below). However, we dont have a proper residency training, that is so disappointing.
My question is, How do you think that we can change this situation? And with the purpose of do it I think that it would be quite interesting to take advice from the DPMs.

Grado en pdologia Subjetct
1st
Anatomy
Anatomy of the lower extremity
Fisiology
Celular Biology and histology
Medicine patholgy 1
Microbiology and parasitoly
General Podiatry and Biomechanics I
Psicology
General Podiatry and Biomechanics II
Public health, values, and professional ethics

2nd
Medicine pathology 2
Podopediatrics I
General Podiatry and Biomechanics III
Reseach Methodology and Clinical Documentation
English
Orthopedics I
Farmacology
Podopediatrics II
Chiropody( dermatology in podiatry)
Risk foot

3rd
Orthopedics II
Podiatric surgery I
Podiatric pathology I
Farmacology therapy in the podiatric practice
Podiatric surgery II
Orthopedics III
Pod. pahtology II
Physiotherapy treatment in podiatry
Practicum I
Research and investigation in Podiatry

4rd
Orthopedics IV
Pod. Surgery III
Radiology and image testing
Practicum II
Pod. Surgery IV
Practicum III
Medical emergency in podiatry
End of grade project

Thanks for all, and I apologyse for my english.