Please refrain from posting "mammy" pictures and other antiquated, inappropriate, potentially offensive pictures on a student DOCTOR forum.
This can be offensive to many on a supposed professional student/resident/practitioner site. What does this have to do with podiatric medicine and/or foot and sometimes ankle suirgery?
As stated in the past, let's work together to greatly improved podiatry and the problems it faces. Forge ahead and greatly demand that your training, schooling, and societies prepare you for the realities of podiatry practice. Those that collect your hard earned dollars-- tuition, dues, fees, etc...have a fiduciary duty to provide you a voice. and more importantly, action. If not, pursue other actions. Just recently, a pod was misquoted and the author stated in Money mag--that pods do minor stuff, yet orthos do the bone work/serious sx. Reality, and we're on verge of 2013. After all the literature and links provided, the author stuck this in there. 2013. Then the medscape CME on toenails by an american MD, 11/21/12. No podiatry input, nor podiatry literature.
Action Plan:
For starters, publish in an MD journal on a medical topic, earn a competitive grant (NOT drug company funding--which is a joke/biased), teach as a professor at an IVY league school to orthopods, lecture nationally/internationally at AMA/AOA, AAOS, ACFAOS, etc.... just some thoughts. Inbreeding with podiatry groups can be an exercise in futility as many do not know, what they do not know.
Get the DPM unknown triad, into PMD, as the DPM remains unknown/enigmatic/tainted. WIth DNPs, the DPM will be further antiquated, and does not accurately reflect the training of podiatric practitioners 2013 with at least 7yrs study post university.
No more sock talk, shoes, nail polish, and flip flop follies (podiatry mags and throwaways/national foot clubs) how about a double randomized control trial or if RCT is too cumbersome, propensity scoring in a large study that has wide interest to CMS' Triple Aims?
Just some thoughts--let's work to help elevate and get podiatry mainstream and under ABMS /ACGME.