I feel that being "board certified" in "podiatric orthopedics and podiatric medicine" to me

is just as important as being "board certified" in podiatric surgery. By the way, I am not
board certified in podiatric surgery. To me that is not important. There are many podiatric boards.
Yet the most important question is not if a podiatrist is board certified, but if the care that was given

to a patient was good podiatric care. This generally can best be documented by photographs and

videotapes.

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Regarding a hospital that I am on staff at. One of the criteria that an

applicant can meet to be granted OR privileges is that they be board certified by a

podiatric surgical board. I feel it is a good thing to be board certified by

a podiatric board and self assessed every 10 years if a podiatrist is

grandfathered in. Yet for a hospital to establish criteria and to potentially allow

for a self assessed podiatrist and not a recertified podiatrist to

meet departmental criteria how does this relate to a hospital

using peer review in determining if an applicant meets current

competence for OR privileges in a hospital? Are there any podiatric

surgical boards whose members are self assessed and not recertified?

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attorney licensed in your state.

Daniel Chaskin DPM

podiatrist

Daniel,
I have been on many hospital staffs with full OR privileges but I do have surgical board certification. I am certified by the American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine and I was also able to provide logs that showed that I had done considerable numbers of those procedures which I was requesting to do (and done them recently.)

I have found it interesting to read the conversations on PMNews recently that have shown that even possession of ABPS certification has not made surgeons immune from being booted from OR privileges if they could not prove that they had done certain surgical procedures recently, while apparently podiatrists without board certification but with history of having done many surgeries and having done them well are given surgical procedures.

Perhaps you are dealing with hospitals that are unaware of this new trend? Maybe it is time to build your own surgical center and benefit from it in many different ways?

Hospitals have finally found out that board certification in podiatric surgery by

a podiatric board may possibly be current certification without any current form

of self assessment. I feel self assessment is important provided that person

doing the self assessment maintains objectivity. Then again hospitals

perhaps now want current peer review in order to keep up current board certification in

podiatric surgery. I believe current recertification or original certification in podiatric surgery

is what hospital credentialing committees may in the near future look for.

                   Unfortunately, even if I was board certified by the same board that you are board certified by, if I did not

complete a podiatric residency training program and if I was currently competent

hospitals still can discriminate against currently competent podiatrists who

did not complete residency programs which if completed probably would have been outdated

and unrelated to current competence. Is there any national podiatric society that ever has even

attempted to spend any advocacy money to try to deter such discrimination and if not why not?With such

discrimination perhaps board certification is meaningless in situations where there are

minimal podiatric residency screening criteria that even accept completion of outdated

podiatric residenyc programs not related to current competence.

Newsflash: All residency programs in podiatry eventually become outdated and

unrelated to one's future competency in podiatry so why accept such podiatric residency credentials

as meeting any future minimal screening podiatric residency criteria?

                    Last question, what does podiatric board certification in podiatric

orthopedics and podiatric medicine have to do with the granting of podiatric surgical privileges?

Please see  http://www.medicalpodiatry.com 

disclaimer: Do not rely on any of the above personal opinions but consult with a licensed health care

attorney in your state.

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Daniel Chaskin DPM