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PODIATRIC MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RESIDENCY (PM&S-36)
The Cambridge Health Alliance Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency
is a three-year program (PM&S-36) approved by the Council on
Podiatric Medical Education.
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is accredited by the Joint Commission
and is comprised of three hospital campuses, Cambridge hospital
campus, Somerville hospital campus and Whidden hospital campus.
CHA is a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate and there is
excellent interdisciplinary cooperation and collegiality amongst
the training programs at the institution.
The podiatric medicine and surgery residency is authorized for
a total of six residents, two in each year of training. The residency
is designed in a rotational structure with an emphasis on resource
based, competency driven, and assessment validated training.
The resident is provided with a greater responsibility in patient
care and decision making as they progress through their training.
These experiences coincide with a complimentary curriculum of didactic
activities such as journal club, skills workshops, case review and
lectures. The residents and attendings have teaching responsibilities
to students, medical staff / house officers and the surrounding
communities. Research opportunities are readily available and a
requirement for program completion.
Due to a combination of community-based and regional referral patient
mix, the medical and surgical volume and diversity is exceptional.
The residents are fully integrated into three active outpatient
podiatric clinics which allow for involvement throughout a patients'
medical or surgical management. The residents also scrub and assist
in surgery at seven local hospitals that are not part of the CHA
system.
Clinical affiliations with all of the podiatric medical schools
allow third and fourth year podiatric medical students to rotate
through CHA on a monthly basis to augment their clinical curriculum.
Externs are actively involved in the clinic, operating room, emergency
department and all didactic activities.
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