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What are some residency programs with a strong emphasis on pediatric podiatry?
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Podiatry is already a limited scope speciality by itself so why do you want to limit yourself even more to only peds? Did you see any job posting looking for specifically for a pediatric podiatrist.
Pick a residency program that will train you in all aspects of foot and ankle pathology. You want to be able to treat patients in any age group from cradle to grave. When you are out in your career, then you can begin to pick and choose what you want.
To answer your question, I can't think of any program with a strong peds emphasis. A good residency program will train you in all aspects of foot and ankle for ALL ages. Maybe some fellowship programs will market themselves as a pediatric fellowship.
Pick a residency program that will train you in all aspects of foot and ankle pathology. You want to be able to treat patients in any age group from cradle to grave. When you are out in your career, then you can begin to pick and choose what you want.
To answer your question, I can't think of any program with a strong peds emphasis. A good residency program will train you in all aspects of foot and ankle for ALL ages. Maybe some fellowship programs will market themselves as a pediatric fellowship.
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Pediatrics for me is the following: ingrown nails, warts, orthotics for flatfoot, the extremely exceptionally rare TAL for toe walking.
Everything else gets referred out, I have no interest in dealing with it (and even worse the parents).
Everything else gets referred out, I have no interest in dealing with it (and even worse the parents).
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Dr. Edwin Harris DPM was the podopediatric master at Scholl. He was apart of the Loyola podiatry residency program while I was in school. I believe he is still practicing.
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Scott and White (BSW) has Dr. Goad. He has the purest version of a pediatric podiatry practice that I've seen. I want to say the 3(?) days I was with him he day in and day out saw 40 kids a day with one resident.
While I was there he saw:
-a small number of daily patients for things like clubfoot and metatarsus adductus casting. He took me aside on day 1 that I was with him and taught me clubfoot casting. Was very kind/classy the whole time.
-a small number of very wild pathology ie pediatric deformity+arthritis/coalition - I'm not sure he ultimately was going to be the surgeon on these. I seem to recall he had one of the other pods tagteam them, but I don't recall and it doesn't matter.
-bunions and flatfeet. Think he was mostly an Austin guy.
-and a ton of just bread and butter kid stuff. Pain, warts, ingrown toenails, apophysitis, non-displaced metatarsal/toe/whatever fractures, etc
I distinctly remember at the time thinking - man, I need to find a way to build a practice that resembles 95% of what he does.
While I was there he saw:
-a small number of daily patients for things like clubfoot and metatarsus adductus casting. He took me aside on day 1 that I was with him and taught me clubfoot casting. Was very kind/classy the whole time.
-a small number of very wild pathology ie pediatric deformity+arthritis/coalition - I'm not sure he ultimately was going to be the surgeon on these. I seem to recall he had one of the other pods tagteam them, but I don't recall and it doesn't matter.
-bunions and flatfeet. Think he was mostly an Austin guy.
-and a ton of just bread and butter kid stuff. Pain, warts, ingrown toenails, apophysitis, non-displaced metatarsal/toe/whatever fractures, etc
I distinctly remember at the time thinking - man, I need to find a way to build a practice that resembles 95% of what he does.
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Agree that you need to pick a residency program that is all-encompassing in all aspects of podiatry, then if you to "specialize" you can look into certain fellowships.
Back when I was considering a fellowship, Mark Solomon DPM should be near the top of your list for pediatrics. He is part of a pediatric orthopedic group in NJ, and does tons of complex deformity corrections and recons. His fellow does every case skin to skin. Of course, they see bread and butter peds, and castings as well, along with some adult patients too. Side note - IMO in practice there is almost no way you can get away with doing complex proximal/tib/fib peds deformity correction without being in some way associated with ortho. There is almost always proximal deformity that needs to be addressed...
Back when I was considering a fellowship, Mark Solomon DPM should be near the top of your list for pediatrics. He is part of a pediatric orthopedic group in NJ, and does tons of complex deformity corrections and recons. His fellow does every case skin to skin. Of course, they see bread and butter peds, and castings as well, along with some adult patients too. Side note - IMO in practice there is almost no way you can get away with doing complex proximal/tib/fib peds deformity correction without being in some way associated with ortho. There is almost always proximal deformity that needs to be addressed...
