Best Podiatry Residencies?

[medschool22]

Hey,
whatare/where are the best podiatry residencies?

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[Dr_Feelgood]

There are a lot of great residencies and it depends on what type you are looking for. Here are a couple of great programs, many of them overlap and are great surgical and academics. I tried to place them in what I thought was their strongest part.

Academic: Tucker Northlake, West Penn, Inova, Northern Colorado, UT Health Science
Surgical: Northwestern (Swedish), Presbyterian, Regions

 

[jonwill]

Northern Colorado (Greeley)????? Do you mean Presby in Denver? For surgery, you have to add Detroit Medical Center.
To the OP, I don't believe there to be a "top" program out there. Rumors always fly and they are different at every school. I think that, as Feelgood indicated, each program has a different emphasis. There are dozens of strong programs out there.

 

[Dr_Feelgood]

Northern Colorado (Greeley)????? Do you mean Presby in Denver? For surgery, you have to add Detroit Medical Center.
To the OP, I don't believe there to be a "top" program out there. Rumors always fly and they are different at every school. I think that, as Feelgood indicated, each program has a different emphasis. There are dozens of strong programs out there.

I tried to insert a few up and coming programs. I think that Presby will be big in a few years w/ Ng. He's a mover in ACFAS and seems to be moving that program forward.

As for Greeley, did I get this one confused. I know that they are big on driving but I thought that the program was working hard to become a big academic program. Maybe it was the Denver VA, again I was fishing for a "up and coming" academic program.

I could have included Vincent's but w/o Dr. Yhu that program on the downward slope w/ a few of these other programs moving up.

 

[dpmgrad]

As Jonwill and others have stated, every single program has its strength and weakness. The first thing that you need to do is to decide what you are looking for in a residency program. Once you decide what you are looking for in a residency program, you can go out and search for programs that would best fit the characteristics that you are looking for. For example, if you are really into wound care, find a residency program where you will be exposed to a great deal of wound care. If you are interested in foot and ankle trauma, look for residency programs that get the foot and ankle trauma from a level one trauma center. If you are interested in limb deformity correction, look into programs like West Penn. You get the idea. Just because a program is a top Podiatric Residency Program, it may not be the best program for you. If you are just looking for some well rounded training, then there are many decent programs out there that offer that. There are many smaller lesser known programs that offer great training. You just have to do your homework to find those programs. In the smaller programs, you may get to spend more one on one time with the attending than in a program that has many residents. Of course, there are advantages in being part of a larger program. By the way, just because you do 3000 procedures in the residency program, it does not necessarily make you a better surgeon. In my opinion, I would choose a program where I only get to do 1000 procedures where I get to manage the patient preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. In some of those high surgical volume programs, you basically show up to do the surgery case and you never get to follow the patient preoperatively or postoperatively. As a clinician at my school pointed out, you can teach a monkey to do the technical aspect of a surgical procedure. However, a good surgeon should able to perform the appropriate procedure or make appropriate modifcations to a procedure that would be best for the patient and manage any intraoperative and postoperative complications. Lastly, programs are constantly changing. Some of the not so good programs may improve over time. On the other hand, some of the best programs may deteriorate over time. Instead of listening to the rumors about a program, the best way to learn more about the program is to go visit the program and spend some time there. I hope that this helps.

If you know what you are looking for in a residency program, perhaps, I can make some recommendations.

 

[Dr_Feelgood]

As Jonwill and others have stated, every single program has its strength and weakness. The first thing that you need to do is to decide what you are looking for in a residency program. Once you decide what you are looking for in a residency program, you can go out and search for programs that would best fit the characteristics that you are looking for. For example, if you are really into wound care, find a residency program where you will be exposed to a great deal of wound care. If you are interested in foot and ankle trauma, look for residency programs that get the foot and ankle trauma from a level one trauma center. If you are interested in limb deformity correction, look into programs like West Penn. You get the idea. Just because a program is a top Podiatric Residency Program, it may not be the best program for you. If you are just looking for some well rounded training, then there are many decent programs out there that offer that. There are many smaller lesser known programs that offer great training. You just have to do your homework to find those programs. In the smaller programs, you may get to spend more one on one time with the attending than in a program that has many residents. Of course, there are advantages in being part of a larger program. By the way, just because you do 3000 procedures in the residency program, it does not necessarily make you a better surgeon. In my opinion, I would choose a program where I only get to do 1000 procedures where I get to manage the patient preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. In some of those high surgical volume programs, you basically show up to do the surgery case and you never get to follow the patient preoperatively or postoperatively. As a clinician at my school pointed out, you can teach a monkey to do the technical aspect of a surgical procedure. However, a good surgeon should able to perform the appropriate procedure or make appropriate modifcations to a procedure that would be best for the patient and manage any intraoperative and postoperative complications. Lastly, programs are constantly changing. Some of the not so good programs may improve over time. On the other hand, some of the best programs may deteriorate over time. Instead of listening to the rumors about a program, the best way to learn more about the program is to go visit the program and spend some time there. I hope that this helps.

If you know what you are looking for in a residency program, perhaps, I can make some recommendations.

This is very well stated. Rankings are just that, rankings. Unless this is college football, who cares. You could rank the best program based on who sees the most nail avulsions in the month of May.

I think that to choose a residency, find out what you want. Do you want a certain region? Certain hours? Family friendly? Research heavy? Drinking heavy? Residencies are like underwear; what works for me might not be your bag.