December 19, 2009 - CME Seminar; Surgical Management of Foot Deformities
January 4-6, 2010 - Winter Internship Program

Internship Program
This program is designed to expose undergraduate college students to the field of podiatric medicine over several days while they attend workshops and seminars and work closely with podiatric professionals and students at TUSPM. Students meeting the qualifications are welcome to attend a Winter or Summer Internship Program session, held each year in January and June. The dates for the next Winter Internship session will be from January 4-6, 2010. More.



November 2, 2009 | CNN
Docs are healing wounds with manufactured skin

Story by Val Willingham, CNN Medical Producer
Dr. James McGuire, of TUSPM, discusses a manmade collagen material used in skin grafts. Story.







October 20, 2009 | TU News Communications
Helping soldiers put their best foot forward

Story by Renee Cree
Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan can easily be on their feet for more than 15 hours a day, in temperatures that reach over 120 degrees. Those kinds of conditions can lead to a host of foot problems for anyone, but for a soldier, it could mean the difference between life and death. Read more about TUSPM's efforts to aid our soldiers.


July 29, 2009 | TU News Communications
Plastic surgery’s no good for the sole
Story by Renee Cree
Today, women are once again going to great lengths to ensure their feet and legs look beautiful and fit properly into high end shoes and sandals through procedures such as second and third toe-shortening and lobbing off the fifth, or pinky, toe altogether.
Read the story.

June 10, 2009 | TU News Communications
A personal approach to diabetes prevention
Story by Renee Cree
Armed with a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health totaling up to $650,000, Dr. Jinsup Song and other researchers at Temple will test the effectiveness of a personalized, visual diabetic foot education strategy developed using information collected at the Gait Study Center. Read the story.


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