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TEXAS RESIDENCYPROGRAM INFORMATION

The following programs are certified residency programs offered in Texas.

The Texas Podiatric Medical Foundation is the charitable arm of the Texas Podiatric Medical Association. TPMF networks the residency programs, in addition to providing resource

information, medical missions, indigent patient grants, residency grants and local training. Medical mission grants to the San Miguel, Mexico mission are open to all students and

residents. Texas residents are given priority.

Contact TPMF for further information.www.txpmf.org

Director, Krista Richter - staff@txpmf.org

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St. Joseph Medical Center Houston, TX

CONTACT INFO: Director: Gary M. Lepow, DPM phone: 713.756-8217 email: docgm15@gmail.com email: marivel.lozano@sjmctx.com

St. Joseph Medical Center has been providing high quality medical care in Houston for over 120 years. It is currently licensed for 792 beds and has over 600 Board Certified physicians on its medical staff. Its commitment to teaching and education is demonstrated by its affiliations with other teaching residency programs including UTMB-Galveston, UTHSCH-Houston, The Methodist Hospital-Houston, and Baylor College of Medicine.

As part of their training Podiatric residents will rotate through various medical and surgical services including Vascular Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Wound Care including hyperbaric oxygen therapy and many others alongside other medical residents. Additionally Podiatric Residents will have the opportunity to schedule elective rotations. Podiatric surgery will be performed at St. Joseph Medical Center as well as other hospitals and surgery centers around the city to expose residents to all aspects of forefoot and rearfoot surgery. Rotating through various locations with different surgeons will enrich the training experience of residents. Clinical rotations will be augmented by journal clubs, lectures and wet labs.

The Wound Care Center focusing on diabetes and limb salvage is an additional part of the program.

The hospital is within 15 minutes of most major areas of Houston.Downtown/Midtown is 10 minutes from the hospital. The Medical Center is 10 minutes from St. Joseph/Downtown and in the center of one of the largest Medical complexes in the country.

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Contact the Texas State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners - www.foot.state.tx.us.

University General HospitalHouston, TX

*2012 Start Up (PMSR/RRA)

CONTACT INFO: Program Director: Paul Sykes, DPM Program Coordinator: Aprill Sooknanan, MHA, CWCMS

email: asooknanan@ughospital.com phone: 713.375.7761

UGH PMSR/RRA is located in the Houston, Texas Medical Center. The primary focus of the program is podiatric surgery, vascular/general surgery, and wound care/limb salvage. The resident will be thoroughly prepared to sit for the written portion of either the ABPS or ABPM qualification exams at the completion of training. The resident will attend a one week course, and earn a certificate, in hyperbaric medicine. UGH has a state of the art wound care center with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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West Houston Medical Center Houston, TX

PMSR/RRA

CONTACT INFO: Director: Sam Mendicino, DPM, FACFAS phone: 281.597.1630 email: info@gtef.org web: www.gtef.org

West Houston Medical Center Podiatric Surgical Residency Program (PMSR/RRA) was established in 1975, originally know as Harris County Podiatric Surgical Residency Program. The program has graduated over 150 podiatric surgeons. The program consists of over 40 active podiatric attendings and 20 surgeons of various medical specialties, including plastics, general, and orthopedic surgery. We are a high volume program with an average of over 3500 foot and ankle cases per year. Many of the faculty serve in leadership roles at the local, state, and national levels. These include the TPMA, APMA, ACFAS, and ABPS. We are located in Houston, Texas, the fourth largest US city with numerous educational and social activities. Houston houses the largest medical center in the world.

Education Resources:• Hands on training in the operating room with more

than 22 hospital and private surgery centers

• Dissection/ Cadaver labs

• Clinical Case Conference & Journal Club every month

• 36 month program training in lower extremity care including wound care, biomechanics, medicine, dermatology, rheumatology, orthopedics, general surgery, reconstructive foot and ankle surgery, pediatric orthopedic, vascular surgery and infectious disease

• A fully equipped state of the art dissection lab with each resident given 3 cadaver limbs per year. Equipment includes: new forefoot, rearfoot/ankle power, arthroscopy units, external fixation and c-arm

Job Replacement:

• Many of the graduates are recruited to orthopedic, multi-specialty, and podiatric practices. Numerous graduates are involved in national organizations and lecture at CME meetings providing a nationwide network of residency alumni.

FELLOWSHIP: ACFAS approved rearfoot and ankle fellowship offered. Contact info@gtef.org for details.

Hunt Regional Medical Center Greenville, TX

PMSR

CONTACT INFO: Director: Steven Brancheau, DPM Administrator: Diana Richardson

phone: 903.408.1604 email: dmcdonald@huntregional.org

Hunt Regional Medical Center offers a PMSR program with an emphasis on forefoot and rearfoot reconstructive surgery, and trauma. Hunt Regional is located just outside of the DFW metroplex, with residents participating in surgical cases both in Greenville and through the metroplex giving residents a wide variety of cases, including 35 supervising physicians with whom to gain knowledge from. Secondary institutions include Baylor Garland, Baylor Irving, Breckanridge Surgery Center, Irving-Coppell Surgical Hospital, Las Colinas Surgery Center, Medical City Dallas, North Central Surgery Center, Baylor Surgicare, Park Cities Surgery Center, Plano Surgery Center, Rockwall Surgery Center, Legacy Surgery Center, Faith Surgical Center and UTSW Medical Center-Parkland. Our program offers residents the opportunity to complete missionary work in San Miguel Mexico and support our Hospital Residency Clinic in Greenville. Academics include weekly meetings, bimonthly practical labs in suturing, ankle fixation, forefoot osteotomies, external fixation, taping, strapping, and saw bones, monthly journal club, cadaver labs, workshops, and Present lectures. Residents also attend post-op clinic every Monday as a chance to follow patients through their post operative course, as well as long term follow up. Clinical work also grants residents the opportunity to provide patients with routine care. While on call, residents will see adult and pediatric patients presenting with open fractures of all kinds, including ankle fractures, Lis Francs fracture/dislocations, calcaneal fractures, diabetic infections, etc., with all ankle trauma offered to podiatry. Surgical cases include bunions, hammertoes, lesser ray surgery, I&D’s, ankle fractures, ankle arthroscopy, Charcot reconstruction, pediatric and adult flatfoot reconstruction, tendon transfers, amputations, Achilles repairs and more. Rotations in medicine, emergency room, pathology, General Surgery, Orthopedics, and wound care are done at Hunt Regional. HRMC will have a completely equipped skills lab in 2013. Salary Structure: PGY3 $46,000.00, PGY2 $44,000.00, PGY1 $42,000.00 annually. Benefits include health insurance, meals, lab coats, book stipend up to $500.00 annually, CME up to $2,500.00 annually, including annual ACFAS meeting to present posters/papers. PTO of 15 calendar days included, as well as PRESENT software. HRMC has a total of 6 residents, 2 for each year.

FELLOWSHIP: A Podiatric Fellowship program with emphasis on foot & ankle surgery in the advanced forefoot/rearfoot procedures, in addition to: general ER protocol, general therapies, clinic care and office training. Start date: July 2013. Contact Dr. Steve Brancheau or Diana Richardson for details - northtexaspodiatry@yahoo.com.

Kingwood Medical Center Houston, TX

PMSR/RRA

CONTACT INFO: Director: Jorge Matuk, DPM phone: 713.467.1299 email: jamatuk15@yahoo.com web: www.gtef.org

Kingwood Medical Center Podiatric Surgical Residency Program (PMSR/RRA) has graduated over 150 podiatric surgeons. The program consists of over 40 active podiatric attendings and 20 surgeons of various medical specialties, including plastics, general and orthopedic surgery. We are a high volume program with an average of over 3500 foot and ankle cases per year. Many of the faculty services in leadership roles at the local, state, and national levels. These include the TPMA, APMA, ACFAS, and ABPS.

Education Resources:

• Clinical Case Conference & Journal Club every month

• Dissection/ Cadaver labs

• Hands on training in the operating room with more that 22 hospital and private surgery centers

• 36 month program training in lower extremity care including wound care, biomechanics, medicine, dermatology, rheumatology, orthopedics, general surgery, reconstructive foot and ankle surgery, pediatric orthopedic, vascular surgery and infectious disease.

Job Replacement:

• Many of the graduates are recruited to orthopedic, multi-specialty, and podiatric practices.

Baylor Scott & White Health Temple, TX

PMSR/RRA-36

CONTACT INFO: Director: Douglas P. Murdoch, DPM phone: 254.935.5750 email: dmurdoch@sw.org web: www.sw.org

Located in central Texas (Temple), the resident/fellow training environment is the result of a partnership between the following sponsors and participants:

Sponsors:1. Baylor Scott & White Health Care System (10 hospitals, 50 clinics) *Including Scott & White Children’s Hospital

(Temple) 2. Central Texas Veteran’s Hospital/Clinic (Temple) 3. Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center (Fort Hood, TX)

Baylor Scott & White has a diverse podiatric faculty of 15 with varied backgrounds and specialties including: dedicated pediatric podiatrist, wound care certified faculty, active researchers and contributing editor to the Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery.

Continued learning opportunities include: • Daily: direct interaction with faculty in clinic/surgery• Weekly: grand rounds and case conference discussion• Monthly: journal club • Yearly: Baylor Scott & White Podiatry sponsors 2 major podiatric - medical educational meetings• PRESENT Educational On-line access

Our comprehensive 3 year medical/surgical program affords the residents the unique opportunity to learn at a university affiliated hospital system, training along with 17 other medical/ surgical residency programs and fellowships. You will obtain experience in all aspects of podiatric medicine and surgery. Clinical and surgical opportunities include:

• Level one trauma center • In-patient podiatric consult service• Wound care/ HBO• Broad outpatient clinics & ambulatory surgery centers• Pediatric podiatry rotations• Active Military duty patient care

Salary: PGY1: $47.500, PGY2: $48,800, PGY3: $49,900 (for other benefits, contact website)

University of TexasHealth Science Center

San Antonio, TXPMSR/RRA

CONTACT INFO: Director & Division Chief: Michael Palladino, DPM

phone: 210.567.5130 email: palladino@uthscsa.edu web: www.diabeticfoot.org

The podiatric surgical residency training program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has been a fully integrated program within a state funded academic health science center for over 40 years. Podiatric Medicine & Surgery is a Division in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.

The primary locations for training are the University Health System (County Hospital), South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Texas Diabetes Institute, Medical Arts & Research Center and all the private hospitals and surgery centers where members of our clinical faculty who are in private practice work.

The training involves an extensive combination of inpatient and outpatient services with excellent surgical training in diabetic foot and ankle surgery, trauma, podopediatrics, and elective/reconstructive forefoot, rearfoot and ankle surgery. Our focus is to train podiatric physicians and surgeons keeping in mind the mission of an academic health center, which is teaching, research, and service.

Individual assessment of residents’ performance is based on six core competencies: interpersonal skills, professionalism, patient care, knowledge, system-based practice, and practice-based learning and improvement.

FELLOWSHIP: For Fellowship information, contact Dr. Palladino.

John Peter Smith Hospital Fort Worth, TX

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CONTACT INFO: Director: Brian Carpenter, DPM phone: 817.927.1370 email: bcarpent@jpshealth.org web: www.jpshealthnet.org/ education/residency.asp

John Peter Smith Hospital is a Level 1 Trauma Center providing extensive training in rearfoot reconstruction, foot and ankle trauma, amputations, forefoot surgeries as well as the management of diabetic wounds and complications. JPS has over 500 inpatient hospital beds and more than 100 Emergency Room beds, our residents manage patients throughout their course of treatment. As a resident you will have unique opportunity to provide care for our patients throughout the continuum of their medical needs. Handling all isolated foot and ankle issues, our residents see patient in both the Emergency Room and Outpatient Clinic, actively participate in their surgeries, post-operative recovery and ultimately return them back to their normal lives. The Podiatry Residency is based in the Department of Orthopedics at John Peter Smith Hospital with 2 residents per year, 3 full-time staff and more than 200 outpatient clinic encounters weekly. We also have a unique relationship with orthopedics allowing our Orthopedics residents to rotate on our service to receive their foot/ankle experience. During their training at JPS our residents also have the opportunity to branch out to physicians in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for additional procedures. Overall at JPS, our residents are provided an all-encompassing approach to patient care with learning opportunities across multiple specialties and services throughout their resident experience.

Resident Benefits:SALARIES - PGY 1: $50,606 PGY 2: $52,166 PGY 3: $55,890

OTHER BENEFITS - CME $1500, Vacation - 2 weeks. Life Insurance, Disability Insurance. $1500 moving expense, Uniforms, Lab Coats, In Training Exam, loops for Interns. AAFAO Basic, Advanced and Master Courses funded, Personal lead.