Disclaimer: Do not rely upon any information on this website. My personal opinion is that a podiatrist did not complete a certified podiatric residency program and such a program was completed more than 10 years ago, such training does not related to a podiatrists current competence.

                                                                                                    
 If your podiatrist did not complete a certified podiatric residency program, do not discriminate
against them. Such a program may be outdated training if it was completed more than 10 years
ago and should not be considered as part of their current competence. I believe that
current competence in podiatry means did not perform a podiatric procedure according to
adequate standard of care and if a podiatrist lacks outdated formal podiatric residency
training this has nothing to do with if the procedure was performed competently. I never completed
a podiatric residency training program and because of this I was able to competently
perform joint implant surgery with grommets in a patients foot and I was denied
hospital privilegs for basic toenail surgery in another hospital because I did not
meet that hospitals minimal baseline criteria of completion of a certified podiatric residency
program. This happenned in 1991 and if I completed a podiatry residency it would have
been in 1984 to 1985 and I never completed such training. Such minimal baseline
criteria now represents outdated training that has nothing to do with my current competence,
yet it is continually used by some hosptals and state licensing boards as minimal
baseline criteria.