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by Jarrod Shapiro, DPM
Joined Mountain View Medical & Surgical Associates of Madras, Oregon July 2008
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our New Docs on the Block editorials are now coming from Madras, Oregon. I received quite a number of emails with warm wishes on my relocation and new practice opportunity. To those of you who wrote in, I wanted to thank you. It’s heartwarming to know so many are not only reading the editorials but also engaged enough to write in.
Jarrod Shapiro, DPM
PRESENT New Docs Editor
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For those residents continuing with your education and those starting their residencies this year, I welcome you. I’m sure this year will be full of successes and unique experiences. Make the most of the limited time you have during residency. Three years is not long at all, and you’ll need every bit of training you receive once you’re out in the “real world.” In a time where the economy is terrible and people are losing jobs left and right, podiatry will provide you with a comfortable life and constantly stimulating experiences. What more can you ask for?
For those of you continuing in your practices, best of luck in all your endeavors. Please continue to contribute to the podiatric community. You have so much to offer. We’d also love to hear about your experiences.
My new relocation and practice will, I’m sure, provide fodder for many editorials and interesting commentary from the podiatric community. Future editorials will discuss the relocation process, contract negotiations, working for a multi-specialty practice, board certification, and small town living, among others. I strongly encourage any of you who are interested to write in with your experiences and impressions. Your responses are, for me, the most interesting part of writing this editorial:
Good luck with your move and new practice situation. I do hope you keep up the dialogue you have started; it is a very valuable tool for those new to practice and those out for a while and still teaching residents. Amongst the best advice I got as I was starting out was to move where I want to live with my family. You made a good decision.
Regards from South Florida,
Andrew I. Levy, DPM
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I agree that the New Docs editorials, as well as PRESENT Courseware in general, are valuable tools for both residents and practitioners. The folks at PRESENT are a dynamic team at the forefront of online education and community building. As long as both PRESENT Courseware and the podiatric community are interested I’ll continue to write my editorials.
—Jarrod Shapiro, DPM
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Good luck on your move and I hope your new position leads to much happiness and success.
Great article,
Steven H. Goldstein , DPM, DABPS, FAPWCA, DABDA
Director of Medical Education
The Academy of
Continuing Podiatric Medical Education
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Good for you Jarrod! Sounds like a great move...I really enjoy your style of writing as well as the topics that you present...looking forward to hearing more when you are settled.
Be Well!
Dr. Sherri Greene
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Smart move!! "go west young man"
Stan Southward, DPM
Colorado Springs
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This sounds like a great move for you. I wish you the best and look forward to reading about your experiences. Your articles are very helpful to those of us that aren’t quite done with residency and have a never ending supply of questions about “the real world”.
Thanks again,
Eric Hart, DPM PGY-3
Salt Lake City, UT
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That's great Jarrod. You mentioned the rural health office...is this just one office or did you keep in contact with multiple offices in multiple cities? Although I'm not planning a move at this time, I would love to get more information on how your process worked. I once considered looking into the Indian Health Service, but got a full-time job instead, and then started a family and made the move to part-time (until the kids get older).
I'm currently working a couple of days a week at a health center (I could do more, but I'm juggling podiatry and motherhood for the next few years). It's also multi-disciplinary. I love working with the patients there, and over 90% are Medicaid or self pay. One major difference is the hospital privileges. The hospital near the health center wouldn't give me privileges because I lived outside the county, so during the 5 years I was an associate, I would bring surgical patients to one of the hospitals in the county where I worked. I didn't get paid anything, so I was particular about whom I did surgery on, doing so only for the patients in the most pain or with the most need. Once I went part-time I had to drop surgery all together as I couldn't afford to pay for daycare while I was off doing surgery for no compensation.
By-the-way, I lived in Vancouver, WA for 4 years. It is beautiful!
Take care,
Carla Porter, DPM
Salt Lake City, UT
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Women still have it more difficult than men. I don’t care what the “statistics” tell us. If you’re a female doctor and want kids something has to suffer. To answer your rural health question: each state has an office of rural health which tries to match doctors with areas of need. As a resident I had contacted state rural health offices in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and New Mexico. Oregon was the most organized, probably because I kept working with the same person. When the opportunity came up I looked into my new employer and I was able to make the move happen. I had also applied to the Indian Health Service in a couple of Western states, but nothing ever came through. If anyone else has an experience with either the rural health services or Indian Health Service write in with your impressions.
—Jarrod Shapiro, DPM
Thanks for sharing your experiences, it’s great for a resident going into third year and trying to plan for the future. Likewise, I really feel that you give it to us straight… so many young practitioners tend to embellish their experiences to peers in hopes of proving their worth. I wish you all the best in Oregon,
Take care,
Eric Hart, DPM PGY-3
Salt Lake City, UT
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Congratulations on the move! More importantly, on your great outlook on Podiatry. I enjoy reading your "blogs".
Take care. Keep up the good info.
Sincerely,
A fellow Podiatrist practicing in Ohio
Graduate of OCPM 2003
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Thanks again for your letters...and keep them coming.
Jarrod Shapiro, DPM
PRESENT New Docs Editor
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