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Weirdy said:
$60 cash lets make it happen.
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Best I can do is $50, and I’ll even let you skate by this time without having you file down the sharp edges twice when you’re done clipping my toenails, doctor.
 
Make sure you bust out the dremmel too!
Make a difference, doc
 
You guys are giving me some great ideas for my next batch
 
Make sure it's in the consent or the clipboard nurses will doc you!
 
HardRoadPaved said:
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Sir, as a founding member of the The Council of the High Round Table of Exalted Anti-Podiatry Podiatry (*not real doctors)™️ Memesters, I would like to welcome you with open arms. We are proud to have you and work dedicated to bringing down the profession (at least future student interest).

Your fake gold plated nail nipper lapel pin is in the mail. We will also invoice you for the shipping.
 
Adam Smasher said:
This has turned out to be 100% accurate, I already have memes ready for the next few days.
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Yeah sometimes I wonder if better to have a dump vs slow steady content.
 
air bud said:
Sir, as a founding member of the The Council of the High Round Table of Exalted Anti-Podiatry Podiatry (*not real doctors)™️ Memesters, I would like to welcome you with open arms. We are proud to have you and work dedicated to bringing down the profession (at least future student interest).

Your fake gold plated nail nipper lapel pin is in the mail. We will also invoice you for the shipping.
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1. I would like to further demonstrate my expertise by obtaining a CAQ if possible.
2. What fellowship opportunities would be available so I can outsource teach others?
3. How much are dues? I have a hard time keeping up with my DEA license as it is.
4. Will re-accreditation take place in 10 years or am I grandfathered in from having to prove my worth that this profession wont or ever change from its status quo?
 
Adam Smasher said:
That meme is a slander, back in my era there were some strong VA residencies and a lot fo my classmates were vying for them
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There have never been strong VA residencies... there are a few that are okaaay (Miami VA back when Cohen was director there, Abq now, etc). I am local to Abq VA now, and there is a reason nearly all of their grads try to claim "Kaiser" on their resume instead (some of them spend 3rd year in Cali, for case variety). Overall, it's mainly the VAs that find a way to get their residents OUTSIDE the main hospital and into private ASCs and places with real volume and variety that are considered best (among VAs).

VAs were the bailout where APMA made dozens of residencies in a hurry to make "all grads are 3 year trained." They were never intended to be top programs or have all of the tools to be such. Many of the worst programs in DPM match are VAs. There is a reason no MD program is sponsored by a VA (some just have nearby univ hospital residents do a month here or there).

For any current pod student, resident, etc to claim VA programs are "strong" is matching/scrambling first and then grading it's strength... missing the bullseye significantly, then saying they were aiming for the upper corner of the target all along. They are either only kidding themself, or they didn't see any good programs to know what one looks like. 🙂
 
Adam Smasher said:
That meme is a slander, back in my era there were some strong VA residencies and a lot fo my classmates were vying for them
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Cleveland was fantastic (I ranked them high but didnt match) when they were a program. Great attending docs. I loved the culture.
 
MusicManMike said:
Cleveland was fantastic (I ranked them high but didnt match) when they were a program. Great attending docs. I loved the culture.
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Just so no students get confused about this post, the key word here is WAS. When I went through Cleveland VA was probably top 5 worst residencies in the country. That place sucks the soul out of anyone that goes there

Yes everyone I know they just went through a merger. I can't speak to how they are after the merger
 
I never cared for VA residency just because you spend too many of your days in toenail clinic. But I had some really smart classmates gun hard for VA residencies. That's all I'll say...
 
Feli said:
There have never been strong VA residencies... there are a few that are okaaay (Miami VA back when Cohen was director there, Abq now, etc). I am local to Abq VA now, and there is a reason nearly all of their grads try to claim "Kaiser" on their resume instead (some of them spend 3rd year in Cali, for case variety). Overall, it's mainly the VAs that find a way to get their residents OUTSIDE the main hospital and into private ASCs and places with real volume and variety that are considered best (among VAs).

VAs were the bailout where APMA made dozens of residencies in a hurry to make "all grads are 3 year trained." They were never intended to be top programs or have all of the tools to be such. Many of the worst programs in DPM match are VAs. There is a reason no MD program is sponsored by a VA (some just have nearby univ hospital residents do a month here or there).

For any current pod student, resident, etc to claim VA programs are "strong" is matching/scrambling first and then grading it's strength... missing the bullseye significantly, then saying they were aiming for the upper corner of the target all along. They are either only kidding themself, or they didn't see any good programs to know what one looks like. 🙂
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The worst month of my life was at the VA in Tucson. I want to stab my eyeballs out just thinking about it. Residents had a shimmer in their eye over the possibility of a toe amp. I remember the director saying “PTTD? We don’t treat that rearfoot stuff here. Send that to ortho” when the resident presented a clinical case to the director. The rest of the day was toenail cutting and pus dripping wounds. It was awful.

I got “sick” a couple times that month and visited other programs nearby.
 
DYK343 said:
The worst month of my life was at the VA in Tucson. I want to stab my eyeballs out just thinking about it. Residents had a shimmer in their eye over the possibility of a toe amp. I remember the director saying “PTTD? We don’t treat that rearfoot stuff here. Send that to ortho” when the resident presented a clinical case to the director. The rest of the day was toenail cutting and pus dripping wounds. It was awful.

I got “sick” a couple times that month and visited other programs nearby.
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This sounds like the VA experience I have heard from others.
 
DYK343 said:
The worst month of my life was at the VA in Tucson. I want to stab my eyeballs out just thinking about it. Residents had a shimmer in their eye over the possibility of a toe amp. I remember the director saying “PTTD? We don’t treat that rearfoot stuff here. Send that to ortho” when the resident presented a clinical case to the director. The rest of the day was toenail cutting and pus dripping wounds. It was awful.

I got “sick” a couple times that month and visited other programs nearby.
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I had a core rotation at a VA. Definitely called in sick and just flat out left the hospital during off service rotations where there was no accountability. Though I played call of duty or went to the beach when I didn’t go in. Interviewed out of respect but definitely did not rank them, would have rather scrambled.
 
DYK343 said:
The worst month of my life was at the VA in Tucson. I want to stab my eyeballs out just thinking about it. Residents had a shimmer in their eye over the possibility of a toe amp. I remember the director saying “PTTD? We don’t treat that rearfoot stuff here. Send that to ortho” when the resident presented a clinical case to the director. The rest of the day was toenail cutting and pus dripping wounds. It was awful.

I got “sick” a couple times that month and visited other programs nearby.
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Man, the stories we can all tell... I spent a month as a student at a VA close to home and really wanted to like it. It was borderline degrading. 100 nail patients every day, one half day a week for surgeries. The surgery logs were entirely made up, and all their RRA numbers were from outside rotations watching other attendings/residents cut. I'll never forget the program director telling me "what you see is what you get here", like he had no shame in admitting the program he was running is garbage.

Maybe it's my fantasy in thinking that every director has an enormous responsibility in training the next generation of pods to be competent medical and surgical providers, and at the very least to not harm patients. If programs can't even clear that, the lowest of bars, what is even the point of CPME 320 and site evaluators? Either they are entirely incompetent in safeguarding our training / look the other way, or these programs commit massive fraud, and I can't decide which is worse. Venting... anyway who's next for making the new set of memes?
 
MusicManMike said:
Cleveland was fantastic (I ranked them high but didnt match) when they were a program. Great attending docs. I loved the culture.
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As of today, the Cleveland VA is chip and clip 70%, wounds 15% and 15% post-ops day on Fridays. I agree the attending are welcoming, nice and fun to be around. However, one of the pod schools does rotations through the VA in CLE. It is straight up clinic and at some point after clipping 20 toenails the education aspect is gone and it becomes indentured servitude. To be fair, they got a few nurses (LPN) do nails because the admission rates are down and they ran out of student to cut toenails.

I wound not call it quality training as a student who did a core rotation.
 
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