As the end of the training year grows close, those of us who are graduating are finalizing our post-residency plans.  There are numerous practice options available, and it gives the graduating resident the opportunity to pursue individual career goals and objectives. 

Here are some thoughts to ponder:

1) What are some of your career goals/objectives?

2) What was your thought process when seeking out private practice jobs?

3) Will you be remaining in the same geographic area where you completed your residency training? 

4) For those of you pursuing post-graduate fellowship: What will the focus of your fellowship be?

This summer the first generation of podiatrists in México will graduate. After years of hard work, Fernando Vazquez Abrego MD,DPM, created in Monterrey, Mexico,  the Colegio de Podiatria de Monterrey (Monterrey Podiatry College) for Medical Doctors, it is a 2 year residency type program with rotations in multiple clinic-hospital services in the city.  And we are looking forward to be part of the first generation that will change the foot attention in México.  This generation is looking to the USA for further training, since here in this country we have a lack of trained podiatrists or programs for advanced lower extremity and foot care, most of the foot  "experts" in México are trained in the USA and they aren´t interested in teaching what they learned so, we are kind of strugling with other specialties that take care of part of the foot, to train our new generations.  So, I want to continue my journey in what I like the most, wound care, lower extremity reconstruction, diabetic foot care and teaching.  But this is part of the trip of a new begining