APMA News - May/June 2018 - 73

CPME Update
Spring Meeting

CPME Bylaws were updated to address the guest and observer policy. Please refer to the CPME Bylaws on CPME.org for
the changes.
Residency actions taken at the April CPME meeting included (see pages 13-17 of the July 2015 version of CPME
330, Procedures for Approval of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
Residencies, at CPME.org for definitions of the following approval categories):
Sustain to Withdraw Approval-0
Withdraw Approval-0
Probationary Approval-4
Approval-7
Approval with additional information requested-12
Voluntary termination-1

The Council on Podiatric Medical Education held its spring
meeting at APMA headquarters April 26-28. The recommendations emanating from council committees, which completed
their deliberations through meetings and conference calls held
from February-April, constitute the majority of each CPME
agenda and include the review of the annual reports from the
colleges of podiatric medicine. The Continuing Education
Committee held its meeting in February, and the Residency
Review Committee and the Collaborative Residency Evaluator
Committee (CREC) held their meetings in March. The March
meeting of the Joint Committee on the Recognition of Specialty Boards was rescheduled for June due to winter storms. The
Accreditation Committee and the council's Budget Planning
and Executive Committees also met in April in Bethesda.
The council reviewed all comments received concerning the
rewrite of CPME publications 120, Standards and Requirements
for Accrediting Colleges of Podiatric Medicine; 130, Procedures for
Accrediting Colleges of Podiatric Medicine; and the College Accreditation Eligibility Requirements. The council determined that due
to the number and nature of the comments received, the Ad
Hoc Advisory Committee will be reconvened to address the
comments and to provide recommendations to the council for
consideration at its October 2018 meeting.
The council updated its Complaint Procedures, CPME 925,
to clarify the process and also approved a fillable complaint
form, which is now located at www.cpme.org. Additionally, the

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The council elected its officers, to be effective at the close of
the council's October meeting: Michael Trepal, DPM, of New
York, was re-elected chair, and Kieran Mahan, DPM, of Philadelphia, was re-elected vice chair.
A new postsecondary educator was appointed to the council
as Anna Czubatyj, PhD, resigned in March 2018. Dr. Czubatyj
had served the council since 2014 and also served on the Continuing Education Committee. The council wishes Dr. Czubatyj
all the best and is thankful for her service. Susan R. Stapleton,
PhD, interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at
Western Michigan University, was selected to serve as the postsecondary educator member of the council on an interim basis
until the next scheduled election in October 2018.
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