Let’s not focus on the ulterior motives of those that support the program. Let’s celebrate that someone stepped up to the plate and donated money to see this become a reality. The Academy, Hanger you and I, whoever, all should be behind this effort. Donations large or small, will not taint the program’s integrity.
We have a lot to do in a short span of time. Right now we need to spend less time talking and more time acting.
My $.02 worth.
Jim Rogers, CPO, FAAOP
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Reply from Jim Rogers, CPO, FAAOP
> The new school in Florida is not just ABC. It is NCOPE. It is a way to
> attract future practitioners for our field. This Univ has distance learning
> programs and will use these models to create the P&O program. For all the
> people on the list serve who have said that they were unable to leave their
> career to receive a quality education– this is the way of the future. Our
> BS NCOPE programs are struggling to fill their slots with qualified
> students. How many people in this field have been raised in a mom & pop PO
> business and have the desire to continue in the field but real life makes it
> difficult to achieve their goal at the highest level. I am have heard
> (along with the entire list serve) countless stories of the sacrifices all
> of us ABC practitioners have made to attend a program, complete a residency
> and then pass the exam. I think the exam was harder 10 years ago than it is
> today…is that my sob story. No way. I am a 36 year old female in this
> field I would like to see it continue, my future and hopefully the future of
> one of my sons is tied to this profession. I was blessed enough to live in
> a state where I could attend a P&O program with in-state tuition, I did not
> even have to change towns, just had a long commute. There is no surprise
> that young practitioners are located around our P&O programs, the ones that
> are not home grown O&P are students who were looking for an exciting career
> and happened to live near a program.
> We need new programs like the FL program. I will send my financial support.
> We also need more programs like the GA Masters level program. The GA
> program is creating “research oriented” O&P practitioners so we can begin to
> fill our own journals with articles written by Orthotist and Prosthetist,
> rather than PTs. Lets build the practitioner of tomorrow and maybe they
> will help teach us all a few things.
> Anne Pare’, CO, LO
> UT Southwestern Grad ’93
> —– Original Message —–
> From: “R. Pepka”
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:22 PM
> Subject: [OANDP-L] unification
>
>
> > Luckily I had not yet made my donation to the new ABC P&O school in
> Florida,
> > when all this hit the fan. When ABC gave away my credential I had to
> rethink
> > my support for them, and the pathway they told me was so necessary. All
> of a
> > sudden it not only isn’t necessary, you can save time and money and get
> the
> > $75 special. The school in California is housed by Ossur, the program at
> > Newington is ran by Hanger, and after some research, the current funding
> for the
> > new P&O program in Florida, (almost 3/4 of it anyway) donated by, guess
> who,
> > Hanger! Is ABC becoming a corporate entity or just really bad at
> promoting and
> > supporting our professsion.
> >
> > If you read the ABC website you may find it interesting, not only does ABC
> > only charge $75 for my credential, they will also waive annual fees for
> 2004,
> > and not only do you not have to take a test, they waive that fee too!
> Funny
> > they didn’t offer to waive my fee for 2004 or my facility fee for 2004,
> did they
> > waive yours? The people who have supported them? Why would that be….
> > I believe it is very clear that ABC has failed as a leader in the field,
> I
> > believe unification is needed for our profession and the only way to
> achieve
> > that is with another entity. Ron Gingras was right on when he called on
> the
> > Academy to step up and be that next unifying body. Time to quit talking
> and
> > start doing. We need to put together a meeting for a viable solution.
> >
> > Paul Weott abcdefghijklmn qrstuvwxyz
> >
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