Why belong to the NYSPMA?

There are more than 38,000 associations in the United States whose members have joined to advance their interests. Doctors of Podiatric Medicine must do the same to keep pace and to cope with the constant changes in content and balance, which affect health care policy, economics, technology and management. This is not an optional involvement; it is essential for the profession's survival.

Podiatry is still a small profession, but it has big ambitions: full scope of practice, universal inclusion in benefit programs, parity with allopathic physicians, to cite only a few. These objectives require joint efforts and full-time attention. That is why NYSPMA and APMA exist. Since 1895, were first chartered by the State legislature (as The Pedic Society), NYSPMA has blazed the way for virtually every step of progress made by the podiatry profession. Formal education, licensure, surgical privileges, prescription privileges, hospital privileges, Blue Cross-Blue Shield participation, and scores of legislative reforms aimed at parity with our colleagues in allopathic medicine. Without NYSPMA podiatry itself would not be what it has thus far become. The work, of course, is far from finished, and NYSPMA needs YOUR membership so it can help you and the profession, evolve into all that you and it can become tomorrow.