Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine

The Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine is a four-year, private college in Cleveland, Ohio's University Circle. It teaches students to become podiatrists and has done so since 1916, having educated some 5,000 such students to date.

The school began as The Ohio College of Chiropody in Euclid Avenue's Republic Building. The founders were inspired to begin by Ohio's passage of the Platt-Ellis Bill, which regulated medical specialties.

The first graduating class included six women. (The enrollment is currently 359 students. 76% of these students are Caucasian, 9% are African-American, and 7% are Asian or Pacific Islander.)



By 1976, the college had moved to its Univeristy Circle location, 4.5 acres wide, on Carnegie Avenue. The college moved to a newly renovated and refurbished site in Independence, Ohio, at the old Realty One building on August 15th, 2007. The college operates the Cleveland Foot and Ankle Institute and its satellites, which had its name changed from the previously know Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic. The two new clinics are located on Euclid Heights and in Huron Hospital. The Biomechanics and Surgery Departments operate out of both clinics, while the Pod Med Department is run exclusively out of the Euclid Clinic.

It is currently affiliated with many Cleveland area hospitals, including Huron Road Hospital, Richmond Heights General Hospital, Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital, Hillcrest Hospital, and the Veteran Affairs Medical Center and Suburban Community Hospital. Additionally, 45 other hospitals and around 300 private practices provide externships to the college's students. In fact, the college has a 100% residency placement rate for graduating students and has done so for 15 years.