The American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine (AACPM) offers services to prospective and enrolled podiatric medical students. Whether you’re exploring a career in podiatric medicine, thinking about applying to podiatric medical school, attending podiatric medical school, or applying to a podiatric residency, the AACPM is here to help you with every step along the way.
The American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine Application Service (AACPMAS) is our centralized podiatric medical school application processing service. Most podiatric medical colleges use AACPMAS as the application method for their first-year entering classes. AACPMAS.
The DPMClerkships program enables podiatric medical students to schedule short-term learning opportunities, clerkships, in locations away from their colleges. These elective opportunities are offered by participating host institutions in the United States.
Applying to residency involves a complicated set of steps and decisions and AACPM offers information and services to assist podiatric medical students with navigating the residency application process.
The Centralized Application Service for Podiatric Residencies (CASPR) is the online application service for podiatric residencies. The NMS CASPR system delivers applications and supporting documents to residency programs, provides interview scheduling, and then matches applicants with residency opportunities at approved residency programs throughout the United States.
The Centralized Residency Interview Program (CRIP) brings residency programs and residency applicants together in one location for interviews prior to the residency match. Podiatric residency programs are not required to do their interviewing at CRIP but the majority of them do.