residency training in california

[studentdpm]

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i'm a 2nd year podiatry student in the east coast, planning to move back to California for residency. do anyone know of some good pms-24 programs in california? i'd like to visit them during my spring break. thanks in advance.

 

[dpmgrad]

i'm a 2nd year podiatry student in the east coast, planning to move back to California for residency. do anyone know of some good pms-24 programs in california? i'd like to visit them during my spring break. thanks in advance.

I am not familiar with many of the PM&S-24 programs in California. However, here are a few good PM&S-36 / PSR-24+ programs in California to check out:

Scripps Mercy, Kaiser Programs (Hayward, Santa Clara, Vallejo), San Francisco Bay Area Foot and Ankle, St. Mary's Medical Center (however, California school students rotate through St. Mary's for their clinical training). These are the more prominent programs in California where you get to train under some of the prominent people in our profession, such as Schuberth, Gerbert, Don Green, etc... There are other California programs that participate in the Baja Project, where you get to do some of the pediatric foot and ankle reconstructive surgery. If that is something that you are actually interested in, you might want to check out those programs.

 

[jonwill]

i'm a 2nd year podiatry student in the east coast, planning to move back to California for residency. do anyone know of some good pms-24 programs in california? i'd like to visit them during my spring break. thanks in advance.

This site will give you all of the info you are looking for. It will have all of the programs in California and what their status is (24 or 36). Just click on "entry level positions". I counted only 6 programs in California that were pm&s 24's. All the rest were 36's.

http://www.aacpm.org/residencies/CASPRdir.asp

 

[krabmas]

I am not familiar with many of the PM&S-24 programs in California. However, here are a few good PM&S-36 / PSR-24+ programs in California to check out:

Scripps Mercy, Kaiser Programs (Hayward, Santa Clara, Vallejo), San Francisco Bay Area Foot and Ankle, St. Mary's Medical Center (however, California school students rotate through St. Mary's for their clinical training). These are the more prominent programs in California where you get to train under some of the prominent people in our profession, such as Schuberth, Gerbert, Don Green, etc... There are other California programs that participate in the Baja Project, where you get to do some of the pediatric foot and ankle reconstructive surgery. If that is something that you are actually interested in, you might want to check out those programs.

If you are considering Scripps make sure to be in the top 3ish of your class, they are super selective.

 

[studentdpm]

thanks again for all of your responses. they are a great help.
i have another questions regarding residency. if i only want to do forefoot surgery, is there any reason why i should apply to pm&s 36? will longer training time more beneficial in general?

 

[krabmas]

thanks again for all of your responses. they are a great help.
i have another questions regarding residency. if i only want to do forefoot surgery, is there any reason why i should apply to pm&s 36? will longer training time more beneficial in general?

My theory in life is why not get as much education as I can. What if after doing forefoot surgery for a couple of years you decide you want a change if you had the 3 year residency you could decide to do more reconstructive stuff.

On a statistical basis if the majority of podiatrists do forefoot surgery but you can do rearfoot and forefoot you have better odds of "making it".

Also, when applying for a job if you want to work for an orthopod practice or something like that they may wonder why you only did 2 years.

Probably if you are sure that you only want to do forefoot surgery and want to open your own practice 2 years would be fine.

According to APMSA 90% of curent podiatry students want a 3 year residency.

 

[efs]

If you start looking through the job postings you will find a majority of them specify that they are looking for someone with 3 years training. Some people with PSR-24's may also look for a 1 year fellowship to round out 3 year's.