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

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DEAN John A. Mattiacci, D.P.M. Dean School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY »taw2IVttS-S400 6 hop tfpodUtry turpi 0- May 9. 2012 To ihc Graduating Class of 2012: rhis year marks the forty-sixth commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that 1 write this letter to the Class of 2012. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lives and 1 take pride in congratulating you More than that, however. 1 want to tell you that you ac the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. While it is true that we have clinics, laboratories, classrooms and dormitories, a school without the vibrant energy of the student is a building whose purpose has disappeared. You arrived at TUSPM at a time of evolution. You have seen new faculty, upgrading of facilities and the progress that being a part of Temple’s Health Sciences affords. During the past four years, this was your school, but in a larger sense, you became the school. As you begin post graduate training and leave us here in Philadelphia, you take the school with you. You will forever be identified os a Temple University graduate. TUSPM and you will always be connected. We have given you the finest education in the nation. We have given you clinical experience that is unequaled in our profession and we have given you the degree of Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Now it is your turn. Because you will always be a TUSPM graduate, we look to you to cany that degree with competence, compassion, and success. You now enter a career in which your patient and his or her condition will demand your expertise. As you enter practice and develop roots in the community that you choose. I ask that you never forget the roots that you leave here at TUSPM. You have earned the right to wear the degree thai we have bestowed upon you with pride. I challenge you to use that degree to the benefit of both your practice and your alma matter as those who have gone before you have done. 1 want you to become active with your alumni association and maintain connection with your classmates. Your alumni peers have generously endowed scholarships for the benefit of TUSPM students and have given of their financial resources for the continual upgrading of TUSPM. I want you to come back to Philadelphia to visit us periodically and I want you to visit us on the web consistently. Wherever you go in you life, you take our name and you remain our graduate Never forget that, because we will never forget you and the time that you have spent here. Go now and apply those skills that you gained here. Be diligent. Be tenacious. Be inquisitive and be successful. You are now a permanent part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. Sincerely John A. Mattiacci Dean 8 Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine

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CLINICIAN OF THE YEAR Some Congratulatory Remarks to the Class of 2012: Given my general behavior and attitude towards your class over the last 3 years, I fear it would come across a little phony for me to shower nothing but praise on you in this format! So let me begin by reminding you that the act of graduating and earning a degree is really nothing to be proud of. There are literally hundreds of podiatric medical students graduating this year, and you haven't achieved anything that tens of thousands of people haven't already achieved before you. Graduation is not an accomplishment in itself, but it does provide you with the opportunity to accomplish in the future. It is this opportunity that I celebrate with you and congratulate you for. What makes a good doctor is not the physical diploma hanging up on their wall, but instead what they've done because of that diploma. I am tremendously proud to serve as your representative of the TUSPM faculty as you begin this opportunity, and eagerly anticipate discovering what each of you choose to do with it from this day forward! Let me also remind you that graduation in no way marks the end of your education, but rather signifies the beginning of it. The content of knowledge you have accrued at TUSPM means very little compared to the understanding you have gained with respect to the process of how to learn. A patient will never present to your office in the form of a multiple choice question, and at no point in your career will you ever know enough information to help every patient you encounter. The process of learning is a dynamic and endless one, and your goal should be to learn as much as possible, from as many patients as possible, so that you are better able and more prepared to help the next patient you encounter. Also remember that what you have now dedicated yourself to is not and never will be a job. A job involves a start time and an end time, coffee breaks, lunch, weekends and the ability to turn off . There will always be a patient in need of your care and you have taken an oath to do whatever you can, whenever you can. You have embarked upon a career and a lifestyle, and it is one with both greater challenges and higher rewards. And finally let me remind you that you are now a vital part of medical education from this day forward and into the future. Although you have yet to begin your residency training, think about how many people (instructors, attendings, clinicians, residents, senior medical students, classmates, etc) have been a part of your education thus far. Our current medical education system is entirely dependent on the current generation passing knowledge and experience down to the next generation. You are now a part of the current generation, and it is never too early to start giving back to the next generation. After just 2 years of clinical experience, think about how much you could already teach to your 2nd year self at the white coat ceremony! Soon you will leave TUSPM in your rearview mirror, but never forget that although I am now proud to call you my colleague, the faculty at TUSPM will always be your teachers and will always be available in a time of need. My goal when joining the faculty at TUSPM was to always train physicians who end up better than myself, and I again congratulate you on taking the first step to making this a reality! Andrew J. Meyr, DPM Andrew . Meyr DPM Assistant Professor 2012 Achilla 'f 7

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ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS James P. Burke, Plt.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2012 Achilles