Doctor Training
Clinical training for the partner doctor, matched to the specialty you are entering from.
Key Takeaways
- Training content depends on the specialty you enter from.
- Assessment and offloading are emphasised for every route.
- Clinic time with real patients forms the core of the programme.
- Clinical access for difficult cases continues after training ends.
How Is Training Tailored?
By identifying what you already hold. A plastic surgeon needs the medical, preventive and offloading framework rather than reconstructive technique. A diabetologist needs procedural confidence and wound management. An orthopaedic surgeon needs wound care and vascular pathways rather than bone work.
Starting everyone from the same syllabus would waste most partners' time, so the programme is set after a discussion about your current practice.
What Does Every Route Include?
- Structured foot assessment, including neuropathy and vascular testing
- Risk categorisation and follow up interval decisions
- Wound assessment, debridement principles and dressing selection
- Offloading selection and application
- Infection recognition, which presents differently in diabetes
- Referral thresholds and escalation timing
- Documentation and outcome measurement
Why Is Assessment Emphasised for Everyone?
Because most preventable amputations trace back to a foot that was never properly examined. Whatever your specialty, the ability to categorise risk in a few minutes and act on it changes more outcomes than any procedure you will learn.
How Much Is Hands On?
The majority. Training is based in a working clinic with real patients and real decisions, including the ones where the right answer was genuinely unclear. Case discussion covers outcomes honestly, including cases that went badly, since those teach most.
What Happens After Training?
Clinical access continues. Partners send difficult cases for discussion, which matters particularly in the first year when confidence is still building. Formal courses through EDFC Academy remain available for further skills.
What Does It Cost?
Partner doctor training is included within the franchise arrangement, with travel and accommodation borne by the partner.
How Long Does Training Take?
It depends on the route and on how much time you can commit at once. Some partners train in a continuous block, while others attend in stages around an existing practice, which works equally well and often suits better.
The schedule is agreed during planning so that training finishes before the clinic opens rather than running alongside its first months.