

{"id":11,"date":"2013-09-13T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatry?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:33:05","slug":"podiatry-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/about\/podiatry-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-secondary\">\n  <div class=\"relative bg-black\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"adhere object-cover\" src=\"\/media\/podiatricmedicine\/images\/cpm-clinical-skills-workshop43-1.jpg\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Third-year College of Podiatric Medicine student Mena Messiha goes through a PowerPoint on reading radiographs during a Clinical Skills Workshop.\">\n      <div class=\"adhere gradient-overlay\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"relative container pt-56 md:pt-112 pb-144 md:pb-192\">\n      <div class=\"md:flex 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Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The College of Podiatric Medicine is accredited by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpme.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME)<\/a> and the accreditation status is accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>Accreditation is an indication of public approbation, attesting to the quality of the podiatric medical education program and the continued commitment of the institution to support the educational program. The Council is recognized as the professional institutional accrediting agency for podiatric medical education by the U.S. Department of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. For further information, please contact the Council on Podiatric Medical Education at the following address:<\/p>\n<p>Council on Podiatric Medical Education<br \/>\n11400 Rockville Pike, Suite 220<br \/>\nRockville, MD 20852<br \/>\n301-581-9220<\/p>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"relative my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"lg:flex px-12 lg:justify-center\">\n      \n      \n                  \n                  \n      <div class=\"w-full px-24 wysiwyg-content xl:w-10\/12 2xl:w-9\/12\">\n        <h4>Board Pass Rates, Graduations Rates, and Residency Placement Information<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><h2 id=\"tablepress-1-name\" class=\"tablepress-table-name tablepress-table-name-id-1\">CPME Required Outcomes<\/h2>\n<span id=\"tablepress-1-description\" class=\"tablepress-table-description tablepress-table-description-id-1\"><\/span>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1 tbody-has-connected-cells\" aria-labelledby=\"tablepress-1-name\" aria-describedby=\"tablepress-1-description\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">CPME-required outcomes &#8211; December 1, 2025<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Number of Students<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Percent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Number of students passing\/ number of students taking exam<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Part 1 APMLE: 3-year Average Pass Rate 2023-2025<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">99\/114<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">86.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Part 2 APMLE: 3-year Average Written Pass Rate 2023-2025<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">115\/117<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">98.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Number of students graduating\/ number who entered the program<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Four-year Graduation Rate (2023-2025 average)<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">107\/135<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">79.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Number of students entering residency\/total number of graduates<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Residency Placement Rate (2023-2025 average)<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">114\/114<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">*The academic year ends on June 30<\/td><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-1 from cache --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduation Rate:<\/strong> The total number of students who graduated from a school or college of podiatric medicine within 4 years, divided by the number of new (not repeat) students attending at the 2 week point at the beginning of the first year\/first semester.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Residency Placement Rate:<\/strong> The total number of students in a graduating class placed in a residency program divided by the total number of graduates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><h2 id=\"tablepress-2-name\" class=\"tablepress-table-name tablepress-table-name-id-2\">Distance Learning<\/h2>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-2\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-2\" aria-labelledby=\"tablepress-2-name\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Distance Learning<\/th><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">The percentage of the curriculum delivered via distance learning<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">The number of courses in the curriculum that include distance learning<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-2 from cache --><\/p>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/4857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/podiatricmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}