IPMSA was created with the following intentions:

“To stimulate a greater interest and better understanding of podiatric medicine, to effectuate fellowship among students, faculty, administration and practitioners, to afford a means of association among the students of the other colleges of podiatric medicine, to act as a local agency which shall clear information concerning students, the American Podiatric Medical Students’ Association and hence, the American Podiatric Medical Association, to provide for the promotion, maintenance and regulation of such matters as are delegated by the Chairman of the Board of Directors to the student government.”

The Illinois Podiatric Medical Student Association (IPMSA) is committed to uniting into one organization all of the students attending Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, to stimulate a greater interest and better understanding of podiatric medicine, to effectuate fellowship among students, faculty, administration and practitioners, to afford a means of association among the students of the other colleges of podiatric medicine, to act as a local agency which shall clear information concerning students, the American Podiatric Medical Students Association and hence, the American Podiatric Medical Association, to provide for the promotion, maintenance and regulation of such matters as are delegated by the Chairman of the Board of Directors to the student government.