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What you can specialize in

• Foot and ankle surgery

  Reconstruction, fractures, bunions and fusions. Where most of the money is.

• Diabetic limb salvage

  Wound care that prevents amputations. Hospital-based, demanding, and genuinely life-changing work.

• Sports medicine

  Running injuries, orthotics and biomechanics. Often attached to a team or a clinic.

• Pediatric podiatry

  Gait and deformity in children, when there is still time to correct it.

• Wound care and infectious disease

  Bone infection and antibiotics, usually in the hospital.