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Jk, none of us are real doctors.
Damn, dunked by air bud once again.Jk, none of us are real doctors.
In 360-ish days when you sign on to SDN to find out that AOFAS is pushing for a generous national scope of practice for podiatry - just think how excited you'll be 😁Damn, dunked by air bud once again.
the saddest thing in the world is that you think we should care what the AOFAS has to sayIn 360-ish days when you sign on to SDN to find out that AOFAS is pushing for a generous national scope of practice for podiatry - just think how excited you'll be 😁
IMO a good thing to have pod students taking the USMLE.
I don't think people need to worry about this. The podiatry schools and the CPME will come up with some excuse stating why their educational standards are fine and the APMLE is a legitimate test of the podiatry student's medical knowledge. A lot of people will LOSE a lot of money if podiatry students had to take the USMLE.This wont end well...
Argument/excuse will be along the lines of USMLE vs COMLEX.I don't think people need to worry about this. The podiatry schools and the CPME will come up with some excuse stating why their educational standards are fine and the APMLE is a legitimate test of the podiatry student's medical knowledge. A lot of people will LOSE a lot of money if podiatry students had to take the USMLE.
The problem with podiatry students taking the USMLE is that there are courses some podiatry schools don't offer to their students that would be tested on the USMLE. The only schools offering comparable medical level education are Western and AZPOD. DMU is not 100% with the medical students. The remaining podiatry schools offer watered down courses being taught by professors who have no business teaching.
I think the AOFAS and AAOS have made a good compromise. Pass our USMLE test and you have our respect. Now it is podiatry's turn to decide. If they balk at this then I think we open the door for severe scrutiny of our profession from the MD/DO world. Podiatry education would have to CHANGE an awful lot to prepare their students for the USMLE. Also, a lot of schools would come under further scrutiny if a lot of their students could not pass the USMLE.
The AOFAS/AAOS agenda is real. They just threw down the gauntlet
And the fact that we ALL KNOW THIS really shows the internal issues this profession has. It can't be swept under the rug anymore.
fat chance that'll ever happenCompromise.
We'll take the USMLEs if orthopods are forced to go through the ACFAS board qualification/certification process.
Any chance this will actually happen in the future?ACFAS - AMA Resolution
www.acfas.org
The ball is in your court air bud, go pass USMLE step 1,2,3 and the Ortho groups will consider you a real doctor
Thinking back...it'll make ACFAS more money....maybe they'll start pushing for this too. /sCompromise.
We'll take the USMLEs if orthopods are forced to go through the ACFAS board qualification/certification process.
I won't pass and they won't consider me. I got lucky. My ortho bros are awesome.ACFAS - AMA Resolution
www.acfas.org
The ball is in your court air bud, go pass USMLE step 1,2,3 and the Ortho groups will consider you a real doctor
Excellent wisdom. I agree, my ortho colleagues have been very supportive and its been fun.I won't pass and they won't consider me. I got lucky. My ortho bros are awesome.
A lot of the osteopath students don't attempt USMLE or don't pass the USMLE either....The problem with podiatry students taking the USMLE is that there are courses some podiatry schools don't offer to their students that would be tested on the USMLE. The only schools offering comparable medical level education are Western and AZPOD. DMU is not 100% with the medical students....
Pass our USMLE test and you have our respect. Now it is podiatry's turn to decide....
...Podiatry education would have to CHANGE an awful lot to prepare their students for the USMLE. Also, a lot of schools would come under further scrutiny if a lot of their students could not pass the USMLE...
Sounds like something not a real doctor would say.#1 - Like cuts said, podiatry rent seekers are gonna run from this hard core or they'll lose their jobs. I can't help but wonder is there anyone else in podiatry ie. school leadership etc asking themselves right about now "Who gave the APMA/ACFAS the authority to speak for us"
#2 - The NBME/LCME will not allow a single podiatry student to take Step 123 until all podiatry students have to take it.
#3 - The NBME/LCME will not allow a single podiatry student to take any step until that student has to take all the steps.
#4 - There will be no podiatry student bragging on a profile about how he passed Step 1 but isn't going to take steps 2,3.
#5 - The NBME will not allow a single podiatry school to have its students take the USMLE unless all schools are taking it.
#6 - The vast majority of podiatry schools will never be able to create a curriculum that meets the accreditation guidelines to allow taking Step 2. Many would struggle to create a curriculum for Step 1. Not to bash my alma matter, but I'm pretty confident if you told DMU they needed to find core discipline rotations (med/surg/obyn/psych,etc) for 50 more students - they couldn't do it. Des Moines is saturated as DMU/UofI are both trying to lock down every moment of relevant clinical medical experience for several hundred students already. The only way most of the schools could succeed in trying to duplicate curriculum would be to merge with another school.
#7 - They are not just going to say - what the hell - let's let these pods take the test and see what happens. They are going to force change at the schools first. Were they to simply allow DPM students to take the steps some podiatry students might prepare/use online materials/coordinate with their school and potentially pass. The MD side is not going to suffer an embarassment or "showing up". Everyone will have to show all of their cards.
#8 - At the end of this dark tunnel the simple and unfortunate truth is - there's already a foot and ankle specialty in medicine. In their world its called orthopedics. There is no world where they say - damn it, you win, ok you're real docs now.
#9 - Apart from the fact that most pod students probably can't pass the USMLE - if you do 3 years of LCME identical curriculum and pass steps 123 - do you really want to be a podiatrist? There are literally MD schools that are 3 years and feed to family medicine if I understand right. Its like - you just did 3 years of medical school and then its now time to do a bunch of garbage podiatry clerkships with trash podiatry residencies...
Last of all and most important of all. This whole thing was a concession. Not just that we will "walk" their path. We just agreed not to achieve our goals through legislation. That was a mistake. We literally just agreed to play by their game and their rules. Do you think that's going to work? Call me crazy, but while we've had delays and problems and issues - in general scope related state issues have been going well in the majority of situations that I'm aware of lately. I can't think of a state scope battle where progress wasn't made recently. Its terrible but the nursification of medicine shows there's a lot of power in just seeking legislation. I'm not saying its good for society but nurses have basically in certain states basically said "I'm a doctor and here's the legislation that shows it". The nurses don't know anything and are terrible, but they are winning. Ask the MDs in their forums. We just said we won't play that card - a card that, even though its awful, works. They aren't asking for permission. They aren't asking how can we be better. They're just taking what they want. If we try to change our path in the future they will punch us in the face with that white paper. There's a ton I hate about how this profession trains, educates, etc, but this profession does generate some smart surgeons/physicians/people who can help. We needed to continue to increase making capable people, hospital based surgeons, people who take on real problems and cases and at some point people looking in from the outside won't know the difference. All this talk of who is a real physician will seem irrelevant and stupid. Don't ask for permission. Take.
Do I believe everything I said above. I believe some of it. I want leadership that actually fights for us, but to fight for us they'd have to understand us. Our leadership is blindly stupid. They don't realize that in general a large part of our programs, schools, training sucks. They have no idea about how badly they are about to be exposed if they move forward with this. They probably won't though. Upton Sinclair has some insights about understanding and salary.
I can't say this enough - it is amazing to me you started this thread but a short time ago and in a manner of days a formal document came out in which ortho said we're not real doctors. Gaze into your crystal ball and tell us more of the future.Sounds like something not a real doctor would say.
It is the year 2024. His cybertruck is parked directly outside of his office. He only comes in to the office to do pre op appointments for his nerve stimulator implant patients. There is a hum in the background, the ever present sound of a nail grinders drowning out the what ifs and sniffles of the newest associate. Nearby his wife is yelling at one of the front office staff. A patient is complaining that the ozone injection didn't fix her plantar fasciitis. There is a heavily worn copy of podiatry management on his desk. Life is good.I can't say this enough - it is amazing to me you started this thread but a short time ago and in a manner of days a formal document came out in which ortho said we're not real doctors. Gaze into your crystal ball and tell us more of the future.
A 50ish year old podiatrist in my town wants to spend 1.1 million dollars on property and a new office building. Everytime he tells me about it my eyes pop out of my head and I start coughing and shaking my head. Can you see his future?
I kind of like youBut hey it's about the friends we made along the way.
This link pretty much summed up what you would expect from podiatry in response to this. But but but but....what about the CPME, people who write the APMLE, people who write the ABFAS??? Please nooooooooI don't think people need to worry about this. The podiatry schools and the CPME will come up with some excuse stating why their educational standards are fine and the APMLE is a legitimate test of the podiatry student's medical knowledge. A lot of people will LOSE a lot of money if podiatry students had to take the USMLE.
The problem with podiatry students taking the USMLE is that there are courses some podiatry schools don't offer to their students that would be tested on the USMLE. The only schools offering comparable medical level education are Western and AZPOD. DMU is not 100% with the medical students. The remaining podiatry schools offer watered down courses being taught by professors who have no business teaching.
I think the AOFAS and AAOS have made a good compromise. Pass our USMLE test and you have our respect. Now it is podiatry's turn to decide. If they balk at this then I think we open the door for severe scrutiny of our profession from the MD/DO world. Podiatry education would have to CHANGE an awful lot to prepare their students for the USMLE. Also, a lot of schools would come under further scrutiny if a lot of their students could not pass the USMLE.
The AOFAS/AAOS agenda is real. They just threw down the gauntlet
And the fact that we ALL KNOW THIS really shows the internal issues this profession has. It can't be swept under the rug anymore.
I will give him one point of credit - he at least recognizes what APMA/ACFAS agreed to. Consider that PM News is also running a poll essentially suggesting that the agreement is just a way for pods to take the USMLE. Its not. Its a fundamental restructuring of the education/training of the profession and it does give LCME/NBME etc the lead. It won't happen and you've already pointed that out correctly.This link pretty much summed up what you would expect from podiatry in response to this. But but but but....what about the CPME, people who write the APMLE, people who write the ABFAS??? Please noooooooo
Podiatry Management Online
Podiatry Management is the national practice management and business magazine, reaching over 22,024 subscribers.podiatrym.com
This link pretty much summed up what you would expect from podiatry in response to this. But but but but....what about the CPME, people who write the APMLE, people who write the ABFAS??? Please noooooooo
Podiatry Management Online
Podiatry Management is the national practice management and business magazine, reaching over 22,024 subscribers.podiatrym.com
No kidding. I said that before.There is no need for the CPME/APMLE if the LCME becomes the new accrediting body.
Spot on.If they control it then they can purely make podiatry non surgical like they've always strived for.
It's your fault. You gave them the idea. Or... you are them...Jk, none of us are real doctors.
Didn't California have a pilot program for Pod students to take at least part 1 USMLE? What was the end result of that.We might let pod students take USMLE to see how they do and then assess what needs to be done to help students pass USMLE. It doesn't have to be decided on first USMLE try. It might take several years. But I think pod students need to have general medical knowledge and pass USMLE. Current APMLE doesn't test much.
Didn't California have a pilot program for Pod students to take at least part 1 USMLE? What was the end result of that.
And then they stopped.Some good discussions on this on PMNews.....
Young student - you have much to see and learn outside of school. Spend your time crushing your classes, mastering the material, crush clerkships and get solid, ethical training. Don't bother wasting your time trying to guess what these sham boards are going to do - but they sure do love suckering students with endless false hopeThe more I read the discussion on the subject the more I am thinking of how graduates and residents will likely need to come back and sit for the USMLE 1,2 and 3 before they can be "considered physicians" in their eyes (assuming this is approved). I cannot imagine a podiatrist practicing for 10 years coming back to takes all 3 of these exams just to gain that recognition. There must be a grandfathering aspect in this process if this comes to fruition but I am in agreement that this likely is not going to end well for us.
The chair of social media for AAOS gives a little insight on Twitter for what we are walking into with all of thisView attachment 340128…
Only if he's feeling generous."maybe orthotics"