The St.Vincent graduate training program in Podiatric Surgery is a three-year (36-month) program within the Department of Surgery. Clinical experience is drawn from 35 active podiatric attending physicians on staff and from the orthopedic attending staff, which includes both an orthopedic traumatologist and an orthopedic pediatric surgeon.

There is outpatient ambulatory podiatry clinic, as well as wound care and diabetic foot clinics. The program has formal rotations in podiatric surgery, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, internal medicine, orthopedics, pathology, medical imaging and general surgery and a podiatry clinic/office rotation. There are elective rotations in dermatology, infectious diseases, pediatrics, rheumatology, vascular surgery and plastic surgery.

Academic knowledge is gained from a weeklly lecture series, monthly journal club, and quarterly grand rounds.

Podiatric Surgical Residents will gain experiences working on cases which provide a comprehensive scope of the foot and ankle including but not limited to: head, shaft and base bunion correction, partial and total 1st MPJ replacements, hammertoe correction, lesser metatarsal osteotomies, tendon transfers and repair of both the forefoot and rear foot, flatfoot and cavus foot reconstruction, leteral ankle stabilization procedures, arthroscopy, arthrodesis procedures of the forefoot, rear foot and ankle, limb salvage and amputations, trauma, and comprehensive wound treatment and management.

In addition our residents will be exposed to clinical experieences under an array of Podiatric Clinicians. An expansive off-service rotational experience has also been assembled to provide integration of various scopes of medicine to aid our residents in both their technical and decision making skills.