Re: NCOPE Response to Emails on Residency Programs

Re: NCOPE Response to Emails on Residency Programs

Joan Cestaro

3/15/2013

I find it very sad that only 20% of all facilities are residency sites. It
is a huge commitment on a facility to take on the financial and time
consuming burden of educating a resident, but we must all learn to PAY IT
FORWARD. All of us had a willing facility that guided us and taught us and
we all must find that charitable side of ourselves to assist others. Yes,
we are ALL struggling with the Medicare and political issues that are
plaguing our field, but that should not deter from our humanity to help
these kids struggling to find their way into this field. As a small Ma &
Pop, we cannot afford a yearly resident, but we do it every few years when
we can and we have found some fantastic practitioners that we have kept in
the process. As a Certified Practitioner, I feel it my obligation to assist
where I can and to PAY IT FORWARD.

Joan Cestaro, C.P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Robin Seabrook
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:41 PM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] NCOPE Response to Emails on Residency Programs

Last month emails were circulating within the OANDP list serve community.
The board of directors wanted to provide a formal response to some of the
issues, misunderstandings and concerns that were expressed. To access the
formal response please access it here:
<URL Redacted>

If the direct link does not work, go to www.ncope.org< <URL Redacted>>
and look to the right under News and hit link.


Robin C. Seabrook
Executive Director

National Commission on
Orthotic and Prosthetic Education
330 John Carlyle St., Ste. 200
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 836-7114 ext. 225
(703) 836-0838 fax
<Email Address Redacted> <mailto:<Email Address Redacted>>
www.ncope.org< <URL Redacted>>

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