Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine - Achilles Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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itrrmv costi» was ranked number one at all the programs I applied to - and even some I didn't apply to.” 2. The View from the Couch For the first time since September 5, 1981. we would no longer be together as an entire clsss. While the game of Trivial Pursuit-Podiatric Residency Edition was being played, a third of us went on externships at various hospitals across the country; a third of us were serving as clerks or as servants to Dr. Weiner over at the VA; and the rest of us were rotating between clinic, classes, and the couch The clinic-classes-couch rotation proved to be better than we ever bargained for. Most of us dreaded the return to the clinic after having been out in the real world,” but we were pleasantly surprised as to how much we could get away with as fourth year students. We would sign in the clinic at 9 am, drink coffee in the lounge until 9:30 am. sit on the couch and converse until 10 am, see one patient with our third year student at 10:30 am, leave the third year to finish attending to the patient or to write up the chart at 11 am, wander through the clinic halls until 11:15 am, return to the couch until 11:30 am. and then go out to lunch for two hours, or take the rest of the day off if afternoon clinic or classes were not scheduled. By the end of three months, however, even this got to be too much. The couch just wasn't big enough anymore. 3. The Final Transition While September 5,1981 may seem like only yesterday, if we look back at the changes in ourselves and in our lives, we may wonder how they all came about in so short a time. Each of us will look back upon these last four years with his or her own special memories, yet we will all share in certain experiences transcended together. In four years time, we have made the transition from work or college to PCPM, from classes to clinic, from incompetent to accurate, articulate and awesome, and finally, our greatest transition, from student doctors to doctors of podiatric medicine. To the Class of 1985: Be proud of yourselves, your profession, the accomplishments you have made and those you are yet to achieve! Ferg, J.K., and O Man u

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Rickey D. Adams D.P.M. B.A., Lycoming College 16 New York State