| "I have had the opportunity to review several of the PRESENT lectures and I am most impressed with their quality and content. I see enormous value in these educational materials for resident education as well as a tool for other academic and scholarly activity. Residency directors should find these programs a welcome adjunct to include in their didactic strategy." |
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Jeffrey M. Robbins, DPM
Director Podiatry Services
VA Central Office
jrobbins1@adelphia.net |
| "...you
have become an amazing contributor to the education and
future of the Podiatry profession. Thank you for that
as well as all your efforts. " |
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Howard Rosenbaum, DPM
BioVisual Technologies
hsrdpm@optonline.net |
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| "What a unique opportunity for residents & practitioners alike. Exposure to high quality presentations with the ability to hear, review and digest at your own pace. This is the educational tool of the future, today! Present will help to provide a more consistent approach to treatment from coast to coast." |
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Tom Berens, DPM
Shands Hospital |
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| "My residency training program just took a quantum leap…John Schuberth, George Vito, Lowell Weil, Lawrence Lavery, Michael Cohen, and a host of others are now a part of my training program. It just doesn’t get any better than this…" |
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Bernabe Canlas, DPM
3rd Year Resident
Plantation General Hospital
podmed2000@yahoo.com |
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| "The most appealing component of this program is that the individual resident can access the presentation at any time. This feature is invaluable, given the unpredictable nature of busy practices and busy hospital settings." |
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Jack Schuberth, DPM
Kaiser San Francisco
Jmfoot@aol.com |
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| "The PRESENT Courseware technology is incredible. Imagine Residency Directors having up to date teaching materials and a delivery system for them that is data driven, interactive and collaborative. Residency Directors now have the ability to assign state of the art lectures and get quiz results back in seconds. This new e-learning platform has taken podiatric residency education one giant step forward." |
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Michael Trepal, DPM
Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Dean and Professor in Department of Surgery at the
New York College of Podiatric Medicine
MTrepal@nycpm.edu |
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| "I do indeed believe that you and Alan have developed something with enormous educational potential." |
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David G. Armstrong, DPM
Director of Research and Education
Department of Surgery, Podiatry Section
Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Medical Center
armstrong@usa.net |
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| "I think this program is wonderful. It allows us to receive lectures where ever and when ever we choose. It is a great tool for the busy resident. Thanks again. I look forward to the Dr. Joseph's Antiobiotics lecture." |
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Nicole Dawn Klueh, DPM
Kingwood Medical Center
feetdoc@pol.net |
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| "As the Director of a small VA program, I am grateful for the opportunity to use the courseware this year and hope our commerical sponsorship continues." |
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Barney Yanklowitz, DPM
DVA - Puget Sound Healthcare System
Barney.Yanklowitz@med.va.gov |
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| "We have been able to use PRESENT without any problems at all. Thank you, PRESENT is greatly helping us in enhancing our education process." |
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Dipika Patel, DPM
DVA - Chicago Healthcare/ Westside
dpateldpm@yahoo.com |
| Healthpoint
3909 Hulen Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Dear Mr. Goodridge,
I am the Chief of Podiatry and the Director of Podiatric
Medical Education of the VA System in Montgomery and
Tuskegee, Alabama. I have been a huge fan of PRESENT
Residency Courseware since its introduction. I am also
very appreciative of Healthpoint’s generous support that
has allowed the VA to participate in this now accepted
standard of podiatric residency education. However, I
understand that your company is undecided as to whether to
continue sponsorship of PRESENT for the VA nationally for
the upcoming training year. I urge you to continue your
sponsorship. Let me share with you the importance of the
PRESENT courseware in our education program.
As a large facility in a smaller city, I do not have
access to shared educational resources. Indeed, my program
is the only podiatric residency program in the entire
state of Alabama. I have four full-time attendings and
four residents in a two-year program. I have set aside
Friday afternoons for educational time for my section. A
typical Friday afternoon consists of a presentation by a
vendor (Melea Sims Mancha, your wonderful Healthpoint rep
based in Birmingham, has visited us a number of times and
has been very supportive of our rapidly expanding wound
care program, both in podiatry and extended nursing home
care) followed by a face-to-face attending lecture or a
PRESENT courseware viewing by the group followed by
surgical case presentations, grand rounds and section
business items. Once a month, we substitute a Journal Club
for the lecture.
Since the PRESENT lectures are of such a high quality and
since I review each lecture prior to the group viewing,
quiz the participants during the presentation and
supplement the talk with my own experiences or those of my
other attendings, the CME committee at my facility agreed
with me that this activity is worth category 1 AMA credit
of up to 2 hours weekly, depending on the length and
content of the presentation and we were so designated.
My facility, as many other VA facilities, is in a budget
crisis. We have expended our annual budget with four
months to go in our fiscal year. It would be impossible
for us to purchase the PRESENT program, as it would be for
many of my colleagues. We would greatly miss the quality
and variety of lectures available on PRESENT.
Again, I urge you and Healthpoint to renew for an
additional year (or more!) funding VA participation in
PRESENT courseware. Please do not hesitate to contact me
by e-mail or telephone at 334-272-467- x2246 if I can
answer any questions for you.
Thank you.
Eugene P. Goldman, DPM, FACFAS
Chief, Podiatry Service
Director of Podiatric Medical Education |
