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CPME Update
Fall Meeting 2021
The Council on Podiatric Medical Education held its fall
meeting on October 15. The recommendations emanating
from council committees, which completed their deliberations
at meetings and conference calls held from September-
October, constitute the majority of each CPME agenda and
include review of progress reports from the colleges of
podiatric medicine. The Continuing Education Committee
(CEC) and the Residency Review Committee (RRC) held their
meetings in September, and the Accreditation, Budget
Planning, and Executive Committees met in October.
The council updated its bylaws and policy documents at
the October meeting to add the Joint Committee on the
Recognition of Specialty Boards (JCRSB) as a standing
committee of the council with an interim policy created to
conform with the newly adopted CPME bylaws. The interim
policy will remain in effect until the JCRSB documents, CPME
220 (Criteria and Guidelines for Recognition of a Specialty
Board for Podiatric Medical Practice) and 230 (Procedures for
Recognition of a Specialty Board for Podiatric Medical
Practice), can be revised and updated to reflect the new
CPME/JCRSB
bylaw revisions including
membership.
Further, to reflect that the JCRSB is now a standing committee
of the council, its name will be changed to the Specialty Board
Recognition Committee (SBRC). The process of transitioning
to this name change will be implemented immediately. The
updated CPME bylaws and policy document can be found on
www.cpme.org.
The council reviewed and approved additional revisions to
the bylaws at the meeting. These revisions are eligible for
adoption at the spring council meeting to address clarification
of the appointment process to the Ad Hoc Appeals Committee
to match the process documented in CPME 935b (Guidelines
for the Conduct of Appeals by Residencies, Fellowships,
Providers of Continuing Education, and Specialty Boards), to
move the Nominating Committee to a standing committee of
the council and clarify its procedures and membership, to
modify the composition of the RRC, to modify the language
concerning reporting to APMA, and to modify the language
concerning
membership
Evaluator Committee.
CPME Documents Adopted
Following a comment period from the community of interest,
CPME has adopted the revisions to CPME 120 (Standards
and Requirements for Accrediting Colleges of Podiatric
Medicine), CPME 130 (Procedures for Accrediting Colleges
of Podiatric Medicine), CPME 935a (Guidelines for the
Conduct of Appeals by Colleges of Podiatric Medicine), and
CPME 935b (Guidelines for the Conduct of Appeals by
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of
the
Collaborative
Residency
Residencies, Fellowships, Providers of Continuing Education,
and Specialty Boards). The revised documents go into effect
immediately and can be found on CPME.org.
CPME Officers and Elections
At the October meeting, Keith Cook, DPM, and John Marcoux,
DPM, were installed for their first one-year terms as council chair
and vice-chair, respectively, and re-elected to their third threeyear
term as at-large members of the council. Alyssa Stephenson,
DPM, was elected to her second three-year term as an at-large
member, and Susan Stapleton, PhD, was elected to her second
three-year term as the postsecondary educator representative.
Robert Joseph, DPM, PhD, was elected to his first three-year
term as an at-large member and replaces Kieran Mahan, DPM,
who retired from the council following distinguished service.
Dr. Cook is the program director for the podiatric residency
sponsored by University Hospital, Newark, NJ. He has served as
a residency evaluator and a college evaluator, the chair of the
Residency Ad Hoc Committee, and as an RRC member.
Dr. Marcoux is a faculty member at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston and serves as a residency evaluator
and as RRC chair.
Dr. Stapleton is a research professor in the department of
Chemistry at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.
She currently serves as a member of the Accreditation
Committee and as a college evaluator.
Dr. Stephenson is a podiatrist at the Carl T. Hayden
Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Phoenix. She has
served as a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for review of
college documents and currently serves as JCRSB chair, a
member of the CEC, and as a residency evaluator.
Dr. Joseph is an associate professor at the Rosalind Franklin
University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, IL. He
serves as a member of the Accreditation Committee and as a
college and residency evaluator.
Public Notice: Call for Third-Party Comments
In accordance with CPME procedures, interested individuals
or institutions are invited to submit third-party comments
with respect to the council's standards and requirements
concerning the application of a new school of podiatric
medicine at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
(UTRGV) in Edinburg, TX. The council will take into
consideration all comments received by January 1, 2022, as
part of the school's on-site evaluation scheduled for January
24-26, 2022. Comments must relate
specifically
to the
council's requirements as published in CPME 120 (Standards
and Requirements for Accrediting Colleges of Podiatric
Medicine), which may be obtained on CPME.org.
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