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For those interested, I just had a Forum article published in the August 2015 issue of Podiatry Today Magazine titled, After 30 Years, Has Podiatry Changed for the Better?

 

Aloha Kevin,

Are you claiming that doctors of podiatric medicine are guilty of not exhausting conservative care measures before performing invasive surgical interventions when residents are involved?

"Is this lack of training in non-surgical podiatric skills the fault of these third-year podiatric surgery residents? No. Rather, it is likely due to the podiatric surgery residency hierarchy emphasizing improved surgical skills at the expense of non-surgical skills. It is apparent that important conservative skills have been relegated to a minority status within the current mandatory three-year podiatric surgery residency model while all priorities are devoted toward molding podiatry residents into expert foot and ankle surgeons. - See more at: http://www.podiatrytoday.com/after-30-years-has-podiatry-changed-better#sthash.Rx5Ud15j.dpuf"

Hmm that seams to go against our medical oaths.

 

Here is the pdf copy of my article "After 30 Years, Has Podiatry Changed for the Better?" for those interested.