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hey everyone,
So I had a question posed to me this weekend by someone looking at pod school and it got me thinking. The question was "do you see podiatry ever having a longer residency?"
The history of the profession has seen 1-2 year long ones before. To my knowlage, there are still pods practicing who graduated from a 1 and 2 year residency, and I would assume they are at a great disadvantage to new minted pods. I for sure think the standardization of a 3 year residency was a good call, bringing us on par with other medical specialties, but in the medical field, we are one of the shortest, next to family Med, internal, and peds, and non of those docs do surgery like us.
Even though we are working with a select area of the body, should we do a 4 or even 5 year residency like the general surgeons? I know fellowships exist for foot and ankle, such as limb salvage and sports Med, but those are rather few and far between.
What are yalls thoughts?
So I had a question posed to me this weekend by someone looking at pod school and it got me thinking. The question was "do you see podiatry ever having a longer residency?"
The history of the profession has seen 1-2 year long ones before. To my knowlage, there are still pods practicing who graduated from a 1 and 2 year residency, and I would assume they are at a great disadvantage to new minted pods. I for sure think the standardization of a 3 year residency was a good call, bringing us on par with other medical specialties, but in the medical field, we are one of the shortest, next to family Med, internal, and peds, and non of those docs do surgery like us.
Even though we are working with a select area of the body, should we do a 4 or even 5 year residency like the general surgeons? I know fellowships exist for foot and ankle, such as limb salvage and sports Med, but those are rather few and far between.
What are yalls thoughts?