The purpose of these short term fellowship is to allow for the DPMs to get some additional training in other aspects of reconstructive foot and ankle surgery and foot and ankle trauma surgery. These are strictly educational opportunites, as Podman had pointed out in his posting. We are not there to function as a Podiatric surgeons in these fellowships. Over the next few years, I am sure that there will be more short term fellowship opportunities.
Currently, there a couple of short term fellowship opportunites for DPMs (in last year of residency training or after completion of residency training). One is the Kurgan Ilizarov Mini-Fellowship in Kurgan, Russia. One can apply for this fellowship either through ACFAS or Smith Nephew directly. Another fellowship opportunity will be the AO/ASIF Trauma Fellowship. One can do the AO/ASIF fellowship in the US, Austrailia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand. AO/ASIF attempts to place DPMs in sites where there are a lot of foot and ankle trauma and reconstructive surgery. There are some other fellowship opportunites for DPM in Italy (sponsored by SBi and ? Orthofix) and Greece.
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