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

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6 Kieran T. Mahan, D.P.M. Vice President For Academic Affairs And Dean Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine KIERAN T MAHAN. OPM . FACES WCI rvivctxr KM AOOtMlC MIAMI AAC WAX TO THE CLASS Of 1991 Congratulations on your graduation. To aach of you, 1 know thia event signals a completion, the culmination of your four years at PCPM. But now, more than aver, graduation with tha professional degree is merely the first of many continuing steps in your career. A profession like ours requires you to commit yourself to life -long learning: through residencies, preceptorships, continuing education programs, the literature, and professional dialogue with your colleagues. Satisfaction with doing things the same way they have always been done is a formula for mediocrity. He have an obligation to our patients, our profession and ourselves, to constantly strive to improve our knowledge and techniques. On your graduation day you will take a solemn oath to care for your patients in an ethical and conscientious manner. In many ways, you have yet to understand the true meaning of the oath you will be taking. The patients that you have seen and taken care of during your years at PCPM have always been someone else's patients. In your residency, you will also not have the full responsibility for the patients you work with. As you begin practice however, the weight of that responsibility will quickly fall upon you. You will be facod with many ethical decisions. The manner in which you resolve these issue must always be predicated upon doing what is best for the patient. The rewards of this profession are many, but the most important ones are the satisfaction you will receive from healing another person, and the lasting relationships that you will develop with your patients and colleagues. Congratulations and welcome to our profession. Fraternally EIGHTH AT RACE STREET • PHILADELPHIA. PA 19107 • 21S-O29-OT0Q mmm

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David £ HduS Sai Dean ro Affgjrs Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine davio a axlw. pv o OlAN K UXKAtJOKAl AT AUi Dear Class of 1991: It is a plaasure to congratulate each of you on tho successful completion of an intense and demanding four-yoar educational prograo. Through your efforts, dedication and sacrifice, you overcame what at times must have seemed like impossible obstacles. As a result, you havo boon proparod to enter a rewarding profession and begin a career of providing podiatric care with the cospotence and conpassion that those in need require and daserve. You are also about to enter a career of life-long loarning which will require making your graduation a launching pad toward a commitment for continuing education. without question, you are better trained podiatric physicians at an earlier stage in your careers than your predecessors. With that training, howevor, you must maintain an inquisitiveness and sense of observation that leads to tho discovery and craation of new knowledge. More than just the delivory of podiatric modical services, each of you has the obligation to contribute to your profession. You owe it to your forebearers and your successors who have mado and will sake their contribution to the reliof of pain and prevention and cure of disease. Your graduation is but a first step. As an old professor once said, life is not built on a level. It is built on an incline, so that vhon you stop climbing, you aro liable to slip, and a slip may result in a slide. Therefore, keep on climbing. We wish you the pleasures and rewards attending the practice of podiatric trodicine. You havo earned it and we are proud to welcome you as colleagues. Best wishes and good luck for a healthy, productive and peacoful future David A. Axler, Ph.O. Vice President for Research Dean for Educational Affairs EIGHTH AT RACE STREET • PHILADELPHIA. PA 19107 • 2l5-«29-0JQ0

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WS ® Dean Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine WtUiAMI MARTIN DPM CAM K» CYKCAl U VKU AKmwcuwnaai To The Class of 1991t Congratulation on completing our academic and clinical program . You have all worked very hard over the past several year to accomplish this. I'm sure there were time It seemed impossible. Taking care of patient , attending class, vialtlng residency program kept all of you extremely busy. Throughout it all your motivation and enthusiasm allowed our patient to continue to receive the best podiatric care in the Philadelphia area. A you leave The College your energy for learning must continue. The years spent at The College should be viewed a a foundation that you will build upon. Cood luck and thank you for your cooperation in working with me in the clinical program. I wi h all of you success in your Martin, D.P.M. EIGHTH AT RACE STREET • PHILADELPHIA. PA 19107 • 2 V 29-0)00