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What Type of Setting Will You Practice?
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For the second consecutive year, our Partner Valeant Pharmaceuticals will generously sponsor a student educational program, “Employment Setting Opportunities”, held in conjunction with the APMA National Meeting in Philadelphia on Friday,
July 15th from 2-3 pm in Convention Center 113 A/B.
Students will hear first hand from renowned podiatrists APMA past president Dr. Matthew Garoufalis and Dr. David Yeager, Podiatry Department & Residency Director of KSB Foot and Ankle Center. Learn the advantages and disadvantages of being in an orthopedic group, super group, private practice, academia and research. Discover the roles, responsibilities, requirements and opportunities of various settings to help you succeed!
Registration is not required; however if you plan to attend, kindly confirm your attendance to Colleen Driver at
[email protected]
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PRESENT e-Learning Systems, our longtime valued Partner is once again extending their generous offer to APMSA members to attend their upcoming Podiatric Residency Education Summit Midwest Conference for FREE. The Conference will be held in Oak Brook, Illinois, September 16 – 18, 2016.
This PRESENT Conference has a tradition of providing high quality podiatric educational lectures and workshops for the podiatric residency education community and beyond. Attendees benefit from the high quality education provided, state-of-the-art training and updates on podiatric surgical and wound care procedures, learning new techniques in wound care and in healing the lower extremity, and managing their practices to the utmost efficiency.
The upcoming 2016 PRESENT Podiatric Residency Education Summit Midwest Conference will be held again at the Hilton Chicago / Oak Brooks Hills Resort &
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Convention Center in Oak Brook, Illinois from September 16 – 18, 2016. The meeting places top national speakers at the podium during our general sessions and uses those speakers across the table during hands-on surgical and wound healing workshop sessions. The Conference Chair is Dr. Harold Schoenhaus and the co-chairs are Drs. Robert Frykberg, Guido LaPorta, Matthew Garoufalis and Parmajit “Romi” Chopra.
Take advantage of this exceptional offer now at: www.resedsummitmidwest.com and click on register (at the top right corner of the page). Click “new registration,” select (Attendee); enter your email address and code: APMSAFREE. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your complimentary registration.
IMPORTANT: This APMSA member exclusive code is not to be shared to non-members or the code and the program will be permanently deactivated and discontinued.
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Tell Us What Matters to You
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You are invited to attend the APMSA House of Delegates (HOD) meeting next week, July 14-15, in Philadelphia. If you are not able to attend, be sure to communicate your concerns, ideas or solutions directly with your APMSA class delegate so you are well represented in issues directly affecting you.
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Case Closed, a quarterly risk management publication by the APMSA’s exclusively endorsed malpractice carrier and APMSA Partner, PICA, is now available to APMSA members for the first time.
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Case Closed provides first hand accounts about the treatment, injury, allegations and outcome of actual closed insurance claims. You will also receive valuable risk management pointers to aid in reducing professional liability exposure.
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Hit Us With Your Best Shot
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It’s contest time and APMSA is seeking creative podiatric students with an interest in photography to submit action oriented or podiatry related photographs for use in our communications. Your photos could be showcased in
First Step, APMSA e-News, the APMSA website or on our Facebook page. The contest is open to all students currently attending a college of podiatric medicine and falls into two categories:
1) Podiatric medicine related and
2) action/leisure. Podiatric related photos may include foot care, research, service work, or academia. Action/leisure photos may include individuals or groups in motion using their feet such as playing tennis or running a marathon.
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All contest entries must be received by
September 4, 2016 and will be reviewed by the APMSA Public Relations Committee. Creative and professional photos are expected to reflect the mission of the APMSA. The photo receiving the most votes in each category wins. An article about the photographer(s) and his/her photo will be placed in First Step and on the APMSA website. The top photo contest winner in each category will receive a
free pair of ASICS shoes of their choice up to $100 from the APMSA ASICS Fall 2016 collection.
Please visit
www.apmsa.org for contest terms, conditions and deadlines.
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DOJ Settles Bias Claims Against 121 Residency Programs
The Justice Department reached a settlement with 121 podiatry residency programs as well as the American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine (AACPM) over claims that they illegally discriminated against U.S. workers. The AACPM and the residency programs created and published hundreds of job postings between 2013 and 2015 that said the jobs were open only to U.S. citizens, when there was no legal authorization or requirement for the restriction, the DOJ said. Several work-authorized immigrants who aren't U.S. citizens reported that they were deterred from applying, while at least two lawful permanent residents were rejected from residencies because of their citizenship status.
Discriminating against job applicants on the basis of their citizenship or immigration status is illegal under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Although the residency programs and AACPM aren't admitting to violating the law, they did agree to pay $141,500 and $65,000, respectively, to settle the charges.
Source: PM News [6/21/16]; Laura D. Francis,
Bureau of National Affairs [6/20/16]
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APMSA 2016 Residency Survey Coming Soon
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To Help You With Your Clerkship and Residency Selections
The APMSA’s highly anticipated annual Residency Survey provides candid, first-hand information from current podiatric medical residents about their residency program to aid you with clerkship and residency selections. Stay tuned to APMSA e-News to find out when this valuable member benefit will be made available later this month to you on apmsa.org.
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The APMSA gratefully acknowledges our following Partner’s for their generous support of the APMSA and student program and services.
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Corporations
Organizations
Podiatry Groups
Doctors of Podiatric Medicine
Dr. Kirk W. Davis
Dr. Jerauld D. Ferritto
Dr. Matthew G. Garoufalis
Dr. Scott Hughes
Dr. Laura J. Pickard
Dr. Charles F. Ross
Dr. Seth Rubenstein
Dr. David Schweibish
Dr. Christopher S. Seuferling
Dr. Frank Spinosa
Dr. Stephanie Wu
Dr. David Yeager
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