Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine volition unfastened a podiatry schoolhouse adjacent fall, the sixth schoolhouse it has created successful its 30-year history.
The LECOM School of Podiatric Medicine volition bid physicians to dainty issues of the feet and ankles. It volition beryllium conscionable the 11th podiatric schoolhouse to unfastened successful the United States.
"We judge podiatry is 1 of the aesculapian professions that volition blossom successful the adjacent future, and we person wanted to adhd it to what we offer," said Dr. Silvia Ferretti, LECOM provost.
Students volition instrumentality classes astatine some LECOM's main and westbound campuses connected West Grandview Boulevard, and rotate among podiatric offices successful Erie County during their four-year world careers. LECOM volition admit up to 40 students successful each class.
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Jason Lee, a podiatrist who has worked astatine LECOM Health since 2012, volition beryllium the school's dean. He has served arsenic the wellness system's podiatry residency manager since 2015.
Podiatrists enactment a three-year residency astatine hospitals, clinics oregon podiatry offices aft graduating.
"There is simply a shortage of podiatrists nationwide," Lee said. "A survey done successful 2005 showed that if caller schools didn't unfastened oregon the existent schools didn't summation their fig of students by 20%, we would commencement losing a stock of podiatry."
That fearfulness was echoed successful a caller study from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which said podiatric jobs are expected to summation conscionable 2% done 2031 contempt a increasing request for ft attraction owed to the aging U.S. population.
Some patients are receiving podiatry attraction from different physicians and aesculapian caregivers, according to the report.
"These are fantabulous health-care professionals, but they are little capable to instrumentality attraction of each of a patient's podiatric needs," Lee said.
Students who volition implicit their undergraduate world vocation by August tin use to participate the school's archetypal class. For much information, they tin sojourn lecom.edu.
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LECOM's different 5 schools are:
- Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
- LECOM School of Pharmacy
- LECOM School of Dental Medicine
- LECOM School of Health Services Administration
- LECOM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
More than 4,400 students be classes astatine LECOM's campuses successful Erie and Greensburg, arsenic good arsenic Bradenton, Florida, and Elmira, New York.
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