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Sole Intelligence equips podiatry students and residents with the AI tools and knowledge to become more effective clinicians, stronger leaders, and the practitioners the profession needs next.
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A guidewire is the quiet tool that gets the bigger one to the right place. That's the goal here: get useful AI to the people doing the work.
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Find AI tutorials to help you improve your workflows. Find explanations of difficult surgery topics.
Find clarification of the podiatry profession's challenges. And help find solutions.
Politics & Culture
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BIGGER PICTURE.
Policy, power, and the future of podiatry. Understand the forces shaping the profession you're stepping into.
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Student & Resident Education
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Explore the Pod Fellowship Map. Read surgical references, board prep, and perspective for the training years.
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THE FELLOWSHIP MAP.
Explore 90 verified podiatric fellowship programs by city and tier. See where opportunities cluster, compare oversight, and spot the gaps.
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- 24
- states with no listing
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AI Tutorials
7 resourcesWalk-throughs and reference guides for the AI tools worth knowing: in clinic, on the wards, and at the desk.
AI How To
GEO Ate SEO
Generative-engine optimization is rewiring how patients find you. How it differs from SEO — and what the hype gets dead wrong.
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AI in Practice
The Deskilling Turn
2026 is the year clinicians started naming AI skill-erosion out loud. The fix isn't less AI — it's treating AI as a competency.
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AI & the Law
Lawful Access
The AI copyright lawsuits look like chaos — but for a resident the practical rules are older and shorter than the headlines suggest.
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AI in Practice
AI Literacy Is a Clinical Skill
The real risk isn't a machine taking your job — it's trusting an AI output you can't verify. Why AI literacy now belongs in the clinical skillset.
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Ethics & Policy
The Ethical Weight of AI
Five questions every healthcare professional should be able to answer about who owns AI, how it was built, and what it costs the planet.
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AI How To
AI Powered Board Study
How to use NotebookLM to become an ACTIVE learner, and how to use Claude if you're brave enough to try.
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AI How To
Handwritten Notes to AI Infographic
Start building your digital brain by converting all those paper notes into something actually useful.
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Podiatry Politics & Culture
26 resourcesThe forces shaping the profession: legislation, advocacy, scope, identity, and where podiatry shows up in the wider world.
Training
The Fellowship Question
Five sections on who runs podiatric fellowships, who audits them, and why the standardization fight keeps stalling — with a verdict at the end.
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Accreditation
Who Gets to Accredit Podiatry?
A neutral, both-sides explainer of the debate over moving podiatric residencies from CPME to ACGME accreditation.
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Video
The Diabetic Foot Bill — Video
A short NotebookLM video on the Diabetic Foot Bill I advocated for on Capitol Hill.
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Accreditation
The One Accreditor Question
Should podiatric residency move under the ACGME? The honest answer is a single disagreement that decides everything else.
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Policy
The Clawback
Podiatry won a pay bump for 2026. A 1989 Medicare budget-neutrality rule is built to quietly take it back — and a bipartisan bill wants to loosen the screws.
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Profession
The APMA Corporate Council
Six companies just got a seat at the APMA table. Who's in the room, what they sell, and what residents should watch for.
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Training
Fellowship: Tool or Badge?
What r/Podiatry actually thinks about the extra training year — and the narrow cases where it still pays off.
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Licensure
A Compact of Their Own
Podiatry finally gets an interstate licensure compact — and why the eligibility rules are where the story is.
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Certification
The One Board Question
Two competing boards, fifty years of parallel certification, a stalled unification effort — and a profession still divided.
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Industry
The Ledger
Industry built modern podiatric surgery — and bent it. A data-first reckoning with partnership and its price.
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Policy
The Skin Substitute Debacle
A forty-fold spending spike, a billion-dollar fraud sentence, and the Medicare rate cut that blew up a business model.
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Profession
The False Tradeoff
The recruitment debate assumes quality and quantity are opposites. They're both downstream of the same unsolved problem.
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Cultural Dossier
The Bomb & The Model
A comparative cultural dossier on how the rhetoric and existential stakes of the nuclear age echo in the age of AI.
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Advocacy
The eAdvocacy Action Center
You don't have to wait until you're an attending to shape the profession. How residents and students can weigh in on the policy that defines their future practice.
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Scenario Planning
War Room: ACGME Scenario Planning
A consequence-analysis matrix for the ACGME accreditation transition, built for podiatric surgery residents.
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Certification
The Two Board Dilemma
ABFAS vs. ABPM: how podiatry became one of the only doctoral professions with two separate certifying boards.
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Governance
2026 APMA House of Delegates
An official outcomes brief on the 2026 HOD — what passed, what it means, and why the next generation should care.
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Governance
30 Years of the House of Delegates
100 presidents, five major themes, and the pivotal votes that shaped APMA governance from 1996 to today.
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Profession
Podiatry at a Crossroads
Enrollment pressure, board wars, and a credentialing crisis — what brewed below the surface from 2015 to 2025.
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History
AMA · AOA · APMA
A triangular history of organized medicine's three houses — and where podiatry fits in the structure.
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Culture
What SDN Said
A decade of anonymous attendings, residents, and pre-pods on Student Doctor Network — podiatry's forum era, reviewed.
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Profession
Leave the Matches at Home
It's harder to build a bridge than to burn one.
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Profession
Diabetic Foot Bill - Student Edition
Why students should care about advocacy now. An infographic example of how I use AI to explain complex topics to myself.
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Profession
Diabetic Foot Bill - Resident Edition
A higher register version for those who are interested. An example of how you can easily change AI output's intended audience.
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Profession
The DPM Comeback
A bento-style overview of where podiatry sits today and the case for what's next.
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Culture
Feet & Film
Podiatry on screen — a cultural look at how feet have shown up in film and what that tells us about the profession's image.
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Student & Resident Education
15 resourcesBoards, rotations, research, surgical prep, and the rest of the training years, distilled into things you can actually use.
Culture
The Chief Summit
Chief year feels like mastery. Plotted against the Dunning-Kruger curve it is a false peak — and the training system pulls the guardrails exactly when confidence crests.
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Living Database
The Fellowship Database
Every podiatric fellowship verifiable against a primary source, sorted into five tiers — because the tier tells you who audits the program, if anyone does.
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Geographic View
The Fellowship Map
Ninety verified programs placed by city — and the 24 states with nothing listed. Same five tiers as the database, so a pin and a row mean the same thing.
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Culture
Feedback is a Gift
The days I learn the most are the days somebody tells me exactly what I did wrong.
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CULTURAL CONDEMNATION
July 1 is the Best Day to Come to the Hospital
The new doctors just started. The data says no one dies more in July. The joke we tell new doctors still does damage.
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Surgical Atlas
The Second MTPJ Problem
A surgical-atlas teaching brief on the lesser MTPJ — from cutting it out to saving it.
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Surgical Pearls
How Deep Should You Microfracture?
What the literature actually says about awl depth, plate violation, and when to escalate.
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Classroom Notes
TMT Slippage
Classroom notes on distal osteotomy failure modes — the post-op subluxation nobody named until recently.
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Surgical Technique
The Quiet Rise of DMMO
A burr, no fixation, weight-bearing on day one. How one minimally invasive osteotomy reshaped the metatarsalgia conversation.
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Field Notes
Plate Function: Start With the Force
The plate isn't the construct — the force it neutralizes is. Four fixation modes, matched to the failure pattern.
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Surgical Atlas
The Lapidus Procedure
First-ray stabilization by arthrodesis of the first TMT joint — indications, technique, and correction principles.
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History
History of the APMA
A century of standing on its own two feet — the organizational story of American podiatry, 1895 to today.
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Timeline
CPT Appendix S
AI as a billable service
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Timeline
Posterolateral Talus OCDs
Very rare - often asymptomatic. But if it's not...surgical approach is tricky.
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Timeline
History of Podiatry
A visual walk through where the profession came from and how it grew into what it is today.
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