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

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LETTER FROM THE 2015 ACHILLES EDITORS Dear Class of 2015, We have finally made it to the end of this journey! Congratulations! We greatly appreciated having the opportunity to archive the journeys, achievements, good times and bad times that we've all shared throughout these last four years. We hope that we've represented the class well, providing you with snapshots of our time here at TUSPM so you can look back fondly. We apologize for hounding you for pictures and the occasional theft from Facebook. Hopefully you were not too annoyed and understood that we were only trying to preserve the best memories for perpetuity. We will miss you all greatly and hope the best for you in life and on your future endeavors. Even more greatness lies ahead of us! Special thanks to David Martin, our advisor, and Lou Guarrieri from Cooke Publishing Company, for your guidance and patience during the production of this and past yearbooks. Jasmine Cruz Tamaika Floy infuse your life with notion. T on,'t wait for it to happen. Ma ze it happen. Make your own, future. Make your own, Hope. Maize your own, love. An,d whatever your beliefs, V on,or your creator, n,ot by passively waltliA for grace to corue down,froru ufon, High, bw± by doinq what you can, to vua ze grace Happen... yourself right n,ow, right down, here on, £arth. - Bradley Whitford Your Editors-ln-Chief, Jasmine and Tamaika 5

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• I solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the service of humanity. • I will give respect and gratitude to my deserving teachers. • I will practice medicine with conscience and dignity. • The health and life of my patient will be my first consideration. • I will hold in confidence all that my patient confides in me. • I will maintain the honor and the noble traditions of the medical profession. • My colleagues will be my family. • I will not permit considerations of race, religion, nationality, party politics or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patient. • I will maintain the utmost respect for human life. • Even under threat, I will not use my knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity. • These promises I make fully and upon my honor. PODIATRIST'S CREED •To render service to humanity with impartial respect for the dignity of man. •To provide a full and complete measure of professional service and attention to patients in the practice of Podiatric Medicine. •To unhesitatingly seek consultation in difficult or doubtful circumstances where it appears that the quality of service and therapy to the patient can be enhanced. •To continue the improvement of knowledge and skills for the benefit of patients and profession. •To conduct the practice of Podiatry as a credit to the profession. •To never accept limitations that might destroy or interfere with the exercise of best judgement and skills of the quality of performance. •To regard the confidence and information received from patients with professional care and understanding. •To freely offer service and participate in the health programs for the public in keeping with the integrity of the profession. These above fundamental beliefs are expressed as standards of ethical conduct and propriety of podiatrists, individually and collectively with patients, colleagues, members of allied health professions, and the public.

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 DEAN OF TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BXa.ttia.cci, DPBX SCHOOL OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Olf « of th« pton 2)5425-9400 I gh9i j! Kite Stiprf 1u 215-629-1929 CModppfM. M 19)02 «nWjrruIMU)OlU)(i T it n( c( ju «Wi fr Jfeodbftrjr Ai May 5,2015 To the Graduating Class of 2015: This year marks ihc forty-ninth commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that I write this letter to the Class of 2015. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lives and I take pride in congratulating you. More than that, however. I want to tell you that you 2£C the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. While it is true thru 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 as a Temple University graduate. TUSPM and you will always be connected. Wc have given you the finest education in the nation. We have given you clinical experience that is uncqualcd 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 carry 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 that wc 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. I want you to become active with your alumni association and maintain connection with your classmates. Your ulumni peers have generously endowed scholarships for the benefit of TUSPM students and have given of their financial resources for the continual upgrading of TUSPM. 1 want you to come back to Philadelphia to visit us periodically ami 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 wc 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 arc now a permanent part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. '- Dcun Sincerely 6