Infusion of new blood for O&P
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Infusion of new blood for O&P
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I have read many of the posts lately about education and residency programs,
and wanted to add my $ .02....
Virtually all medical care in the US is based on standards, standards in
protocol, standards in pricing, standards in credentialing. The only vehicle
in P & O that offers a true standard in a training mechanism are the
university based NCOPE programs and the residency follow up. These are
designed with a structure, and they offer a tried and tested methodology that
we know works effectively in taking someone lay and making them knowledgeable
and capable. Even if a person takes it upon himself to become the most well
read and technically seasoned person in P & O, without the proof of a
structured program it is nothing more than hearsay.
We are all aware of the financial and time burdens that going through that
structured training process requires. I will spare this list my sorry song of
sacrifice, but all of us who have made it through those programs, have one.
P & O residency pay is significantly less than a practitioner or even a
skilled tech....
I wonder why that is????
I have a podiatrist friend who took a residency that paid $12,000 per year.
He could have done a residency that paid him more than double that amount,
but he felt that the prestige of the lower paying residency was worth the $$
sacrifice.
In all medical professions, residency means cruddy pay, cruddy hours, cruddy
work! The reason for this, is that you are there to learn !! The seasoned
professional you are learning from is loosing his clinical time supervising
you !! in P & O there is that product loss or learning curve in which
materials and time are being thrown in the garbage at the expense of teaching
you !!! Those providing the residency program do ultimately make money off
teaching you, this is well known.
But, incentives have to be there, in order to make it attractive for the
residency programs to want to give you that opportunity to learn. So you
get.... cruddy pay, cruddy hours, cruddy work..... and you like it, and you
don't complain about it, and it makes you a better person for it ;)
What I find amusing in all this banter about qualification, is that one key
issue here seems to be the procurement of a bachelor level degree. What a
joke!!!! In our technology world, a bachelors degree is the equivalent of a
high school degree in my fathers day.
Sincerely,
Wade Bader, CPO
Tampa FL
PS: I heard the EZ-FIT orthosis was available in 5 sizes, but now, with a
new state-of-the-art design improvement one size fits all !! For those
of you on this list that feel this represents a technology
breakthrough....... Please ignore my entire post :)
and wanted to add my $ .02....
Virtually all medical care in the US is based on standards, standards in
protocol, standards in pricing, standards in credentialing. The only vehicle
in P & O that offers a true standard in a training mechanism are the
university based NCOPE programs and the residency follow up. These are
designed with a structure, and they offer a tried and tested methodology that
we know works effectively in taking someone lay and making them knowledgeable
and capable. Even if a person takes it upon himself to become the most well
read and technically seasoned person in P & O, without the proof of a
structured program it is nothing more than hearsay.
We are all aware of the financial and time burdens that going through that
structured training process requires. I will spare this list my sorry song of
sacrifice, but all of us who have made it through those programs, have one.
P & O residency pay is significantly less than a practitioner or even a
skilled tech....
I wonder why that is????
I have a podiatrist friend who took a residency that paid $12,000 per year.
He could have done a residency that paid him more than double that amount,
but he felt that the prestige of the lower paying residency was worth the $$
sacrifice.
In all medical professions, residency means cruddy pay, cruddy hours, cruddy
work! The reason for this, is that you are there to learn !! The seasoned
professional you are learning from is loosing his clinical time supervising
you !! in P & O there is that product loss or learning curve in which
materials and time are being thrown in the garbage at the expense of teaching
you !!! Those providing the residency program do ultimately make money off
teaching you, this is well known.
But, incentives have to be there, in order to make it attractive for the
residency programs to want to give you that opportunity to learn. So you
get.... cruddy pay, cruddy hours, cruddy work..... and you like it, and you
don't complain about it, and it makes you a better person for it ;)
What I find amusing in all this banter about qualification, is that one key
issue here seems to be the procurement of a bachelor level degree. What a
joke!!!! In our technology world, a bachelors degree is the equivalent of a
high school degree in my fathers day.
Sincerely,
Wade Bader, CPO
Tampa FL
PS: I heard the EZ-FIT orthosis was available in 5 sizes, but now, with a
new state-of-the-art design improvement one size fits all !! For those
of you on this list that feel this represents a technology
breakthrough....... Please ignore my entire post :)
Citation
“Infusion of new blood for O&P,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 9, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215484.
