At the April 2023 CPME meeting, the Council appointed a Milestones Pilot Project Committee to finalize the Podiatric Milestones and create a corresponding Supplemental Guide to serve as additional guidance for use of the optional Milestones. The Supplemental Guide provides examples for each Milestone. The guide is not designed to indicate specific requirements for each level, but to provide insight into the thinking of the Milestone Committee.
The Committee met 11 times between August 2023 and November 2024. At its May 2025 meeting, the Council on Podiatric Medical Education approved Optional Podiatric Milestones and a corresponding Supplemental Guide created by the Milestones Pilot Project Committee. The Council accepted the recommendation of the Committee the to release these resources concurrently with training resources for program directors and clinical competency committee members.
Milestones Training will take place virtually via Zoom on the following dates (click to register):
The Optional Podiatric Milestones and Supplemental Guide will be released to program directors who attend one of the Milestones Training events.
The training will be recorded and posted online in 2026 along with the Optional Milestones and Supplemental Guide.
Milestones Pilot Project Committee Members:
- Tiffany Murano, MD (Chair)
- Professor & Vice Chair of EM Education Dept, Columbia University
- Associate DIO, NY Presbyterian Hospital
- President of the Council of Residency Directors in EM (CORD-EM)
- ACGME & EM Milestones 2.0 Work Group
- Chair-elect of the EM Review & Recognition Committee
- Keith Cook, DPM
- Director, Podiatry Department, University Hospital, Newark, NJ
- Neil Kothari, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Vice Chancellor for Graduate Medical Education
- Designated Institutional Official
- Rutgers Health
- JT Marcoux, DPM
- Residency Program Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
- Aksone Nouvong, DPM
- Professor, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Deputy Chief of Surgery, DVA Greater Los Angeles
- Chief of Podiatric Surgery Olive View-UCLA
- Steven Vyce, DPM (ex-officio)
- Chief, Department of Podiatric Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Program Director, Yale Foot & Ankle Surgery Residency Program
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine