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 Help US to Help YOU

To all podiatric residents:

How fortunate you all are to have access to such a wonderful website to interact with and learn from. Thus far, Dr. Sherman has amassed a very impressive list of outstanding lecturers, each possessing years of clinical experience, who are willing to share their knowledge base and insight with you on various pertinent clinical topics. I know I speak for Dr.'s Lieberman and Sherman in extending a heartfelt plea for your input.

We want to know what's on your minds so that we may position ourselves and this website in assisting you in the most effective and efficient manner possible. This website can be as terrific as you want it to be. I know, because I've watched the growth of and interacted with Dr. Sherman's former website (Podiatry Online) for years. The information highway he created for his colleagues was invaluable. All of us learned from one another to help make us better physicians. We would like to think we are extremely
accessible and will do everything possible to help you, but we need your input, your ideas, learn what your feelings and concerns are regarding the issues you deem most critical at this stage in your professional careers.

It's ironic, but I never felt as secure as a healthcare professional as I was when I rotated through my residency at Kern Hospital from 1981-83. While you are in your program, you are secure and insulated from the world about you to a certain degree. Your malpractice is covered, food and housing are generally available to most residents at a discount, resident salaries are at an all time high, and you have the ability to be as bold and aggressive as you want to be in your clinical philosophy, for the attendings ultimately bear the burden of responsibility and repurcussions from the ideas and suggestions you offer for any given clinical situation. That all changes once you graduate from your residency program when you become the clinician, the attending. We understand, to a point, what it must feel like to enter the next phase of your professional careers, since we've all been there and done that. However, times are much different now than they were back in the early and mid 1980's, and so are the hurdles one must clear to achieve success. As Jerry Maguire put it "help US to help YOU" succeed! My own goal as it pertains to this website is to provide as much accessibility as is required to offer insight and information that may help position each and every one of you in becoming a better podiatrist. Likewise, I know each and every resident has something to offer that will benefit your educators. It's a two way street, so rev up your think tanks. Please...let us hear from you...E-mail us today!!!
 

Respectfully submitted,

Barry Mullen, DPM