| Curriculum Vitae Bradley Nelson, DPM, AACFAS DPM: Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, Cleveland, OH Associate: American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons Residency: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK Board-Qualified: American Board of Podiatric Surgery Member: American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons American Podiatric Medical Association Oklahoma Podiatric Medical Association Certificates: AO Fixation, External Fixation, Arthroscopic Surgery, Shockwave Therapy KCI Wound Vac Therapy Hospital Staffing Privileges: Integris Clinton Regional Hospital-Clinton, OK Great Plains Regional Medical Center-Elk City, OK Weatherford Regional Hospital-Weatherford, OK Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma-Oklahoma City, OK My name is Dr. Bradley Nelson. I am a Podiatric Physician and Surgeon who specializes in the complete care of the foot and ankle. I am Board Qualified in foot surgery by the American Board of Podiatric Surgeons, and I am an Associate, American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons. I am a native Oklahoman born in Tulsa. After completing 4-years of undergraduate studies and acheiving a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, I then continued my medical studies in Cleveland, OH at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. This was a 4-year curriculum, complete with multiple externships. Upon graduation, I begin my first year of residency at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. This was mainly an internship year where I did vast number of rotations in several aspects of medicine(e.g. Vascular Medicine, Emergency Department, Internal Medicine, Anesthesia, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Podiatric Medicine, Radiology, Infectious Disease, and Psychology). Once this year was completed I did another two years of residency focusing on Podiatric Surgery at The Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, OK. This is where I received training in foot and ankle reconstruction, trauma, wound care, sports medicine, as well as many other areas of the foot and ankle. What is the difference in Board-Qualified and Board-Certified? The answer is simple: one must be Board-Qualified before he/she can become Board-Certified. In the field of Podiatry, the process to become Board-Certified is lengthy. Once a person has finished an approved and certified Podiatric Surgical Residency, he/she is now Board-Eligible. That person then has to take a written exam of several hundred questions. If one passes this test, then they have now become Board-Qualified. In order to become certified, you have to wait five years after your graduation date from medical school, have completed an approved residency program and compiled over 50 surgical cases in different aspects of Podiatric surgery, with preoperative and post-operative documentation on each case. Once this has been done, one can then take the Board-Certification exam which is an oral exam given by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery. Once you have passed this, one is now Board-Certified. In order to keep this certification, one has to take and pass an exam every ten years. Currently I am in the process of becoming Board-Certified, but because of the regulations by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery. I am not able to take this exam until June 2009. |
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| Dr Brad Nelson and his family |
