Additional Information Our Mission For further information about the Swedish • Develop highly skilled physicians who specialize in foot and ankle care Foot & Ankle Surgery and Medicine Swedish Foot & Ankle Program with Reconstructive Rearfoot/ • Provide a sound foundation of academic and Surgery and Medicine clinical education for our podiatric residents Ankle Surgery or Externship Program, please contact: Program with • Promote educational excellence throughout the medical community Swedish Foot & Ankle Surgery and Reconstructive Rearfoot/ Medicine Program with Reconstructive Ankle Surgery The Program Rearfoot/Ankle Surgery A Three-Year Program Emphasizing Swedish Foot & Ankle Surgery and Medicine Swedish Medical Center Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgery Program with Reconstructive Rearfoot/Ankle Graduate Medical Education-Podiatry and Traumatology Surgery is a three-year program in foot and 747 Broadway, WW-735 ankle medicine and surgery, including extensive Seattle, WA 98122 T 206-320-5301 training in reconstruction of the rearfoot and F 206-320-4780 ankle. It has been developed with special www.swedish.org/podiatricresidency emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach to lower-extremity disorders. The program is accredited by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education as a Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Residency with added reconstructive rearfoot/ankle surgery credential Swedish Foot & Ankle Surgery and (PMSR/RRA). Two residents are selected each Medicine Program with Reconstructive year. Rearfoot/Ankle Surgery This residency began in 1969 as the Waldo Residency Program and moved to its present location at Swedish in 1997. Application through SWEDISH FOOT & ANKLE SURGERY AND CASPR™ required MEDICINE PROGRAM WITH RECONSTRUCTIVE REARFOOT/ANKLE SURGERY www.swedish.org/podiatricresidency © 2013 SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PSRP-04-04421 R-1/13 The Curriculum Rotations An Emphasis on Research The Program is highly academic with a strong Year I The residency holds a strong commitment surgical volume. Each resident logs well over • Foot and Ankle Surgery (20 weeks) to research with regard to the biomechanics 1,000 procedures. Residents are required • Sports Medicine/Biomechanics of foot and ankle surgery. Each resident is to lecture daily to visiting students and are • Research Development and Publication required to complete one research project in encouraged to present on a local and national their first two years and an additional project • Anesthesiology/Pain Management level. Weekly Grand Rounds, monthly Journal in their third year. • Vascular Surgery Club meetings and Fireside Chats are well- The renowned Northwest Podiatric Foundation attended by physicians on staff. Residents • Family Medicine Surgical Biomechanics Research Laboratory, attend courses, including microneurovascular • Microneurovascular Surgery directed by Jeffrey Christensen, D.P.M., surgery, AO fixation and arthroscopy (for which • Wound Management and Clinic focuses primarily on prospective studies of funding is provided by Swedish, the Waldo Externship Program • Pathology/Pharmacology foot and ankle mechanics. The laboratory is Medical Foundation and the International Foot Podiatric medical students are invited for a one- • Radiology located at Swedish Medical Center, and is & Ankle Foundation). month clinical rotation. In the operating room, funded by both the International Foot & Ankle Year II they function as surgical scrub technicians with Many of the specialty rotations take place • Foot and Ankle Surgery (30 weeks) Foundation and the WALDO Foundation. It has a certified technician present. This allows the at highly regarded local hospitals, including received significant acclaim over the years with • Podiatric Clinic student first-hand exposure to instrumentation Harborview Medical Center and Virginia the publication of numerous award-winning • General Surgery and Traumatology and close observation of surgeries. Mason Medical Center. In the third year, resi- papers. Stryker Endoscopy has donated a full dents devote much of their education to the • Emergency Trauma Center: Level 1 complement of arthroscopy equipment to the Externs participate in cadaver dissections as refinement of their knowledge and skills in foot • Orthopedic Traumatology research lab, allowing for arthroscopic research well as numerous lectures and discussions and ankle reconstruction and trauma surgery. • Plastic Surgery/Wound Management and education in surgical technique using given by the residents and core faculty. They are required to present a formal scientific A large part of the third year is spent with John • Research Development and Publication cadavers. M. Schuberth, D.P.M., at Kaiser Permanente in lecture to the faculty in addition to the present- • Rheumatology Clinic Our alumni go on to achieve board certification San Francisco. Residents are involved with the ation of a case observed during their rotation. • Radiology with the American Board of Podiatric Surgery Swedish Wound Healing Center, where they and continue in the academic realm, as leaders function as an integral part of the multi- Year III in podiatric medicine, locally, nationally and disciplinary medical staff. • Behavioral Science internationally. • Sports Medicine Clinic and Surgery • Advanced Traumatology (12 weeks) • Podiatric Clinic • Pediatric Orthopedic Clinic and Surgery • Advanced Reconstructive Surgery/Research • Infectious Disease.