Is it difficult to get a podiatry residency?
yes if you have an attitude and are difficult to understand or get along with
IMO failing to know the advanced stuff won't prevent you from getting a program but failing to know the basics will.
Kind of off topic but I am curious how many programs does an average podiatry student apply to? do many of these podiatry students that had to scramble applied only to a few programs? Did you guys apply all over the nation or mostly did on geographical preference.
Kind of off topic but I am curious how many programs does an average podiatry student apply to? do many of these podiatry students that had to scramble applied only to a few programs? Did you guys apply all over the nation or mostly did on geographical preference.
I think janV88 originally meant that its ok if you don't know all the surgical pearls to complex procedures. In retrospect majority of the questions I was asked on clerkships had a lot to do with basic stuff (as noted above) than really specific advanced material.
Being in the middle of the class is probably good. If you are near the top and the directors don't think they can teach you anything more or that you may be more intelligent than them, they are not as likely to choose you. I nailed interview after interview, even providing information that the interviewers may not have been aware, quoting large varieties of medical journals, and paying attention to whole body systems with consideration to the proposed patient concerns that they presented during interview. I was unmatched to over 50 residency programs. The process is simply horrible. I suppose good comeback lines would be to pretend you don't know too much, make a few benign suggestions for how to approach a problem and allow them to stroke their egos and tell you what they did. Any way that you can stroke their ego is likely going to help you.
I'm sure I'll get bashed on here, as always, because having the ability to memorize large volumes of material somehow will equate to my having a "bad attitude". Those folks can kiss my grits. We all know the many who are kissing the grits of their attending's.
Well now that's a first. You didn't match because you knew too much?! I mean sure there's a chance that you're telling the truth & you are in fact some genius who nailed every interview by flummoxing all the attendings that tried to stump you. And that all this intimidated them and that's why you didn't match.
Buuuut I think there's probably a likelier chance you're not being very self-aware. Have you ever asked a friend for an honest assessment of yourself? I somehow doubt you are as brilliant and faultless as you claim.
Its all about playing the game. Sprinkle in hard work, intelligence and luck. Biggest enemy is ego an personality extremes.- IMHO.
You aren't helping your cause. If you want to influence people you're going to have to start at the beginning. I looked back at a bit of your post history and some of it made me feel sympathetic towards you (other parts made you seem possibly untruthful), but now you are moving towards being an angry guy on a soapbox. I'm sure you would like to remain anonymous, but when did you graduate and from where? What have you done in the mean time? What happened in 2010? It looked like you were excited at the prospect of a residency? Be a person, not a poster.
YUP! That's the PROBLEM. This is your OPINION. In MY OPINION, the exact opposite is what worked for those who get programs. They weren't all the sharpest tools in the shed, definitely not the hardest working, but LUCK! Yes, you hit the nail on the head with that one. The students with the biggest egos landed great programs. It was amazing. Eon's ago, on externship, there was a co-extern who was lazy, not the smartest, but lucky? Perhaps. He didn't have to go to clinic because the residents had him going to as many surgical cases as possible. Guess who did clinic? Yup, me, every day. He'd go to a case in the morning, while I saw and treated 15+ clinic patients, wrote the charts, got 'em ready for the head honchos to sign. By noon we'd both be in the "residents lounge area" where he would proceed to flop his entire body on the one couch and pretend he was exhausted from the day's observations. Not to worry, if I was there for more than 5 minutes I was told to go do more work, or at least "prepare" a presentation for later. YUP! Hard work has NOTHING to do with it. It is a CRAP SHOOT.
You all act like you're such experts in finding residency placement. I went thru CASPR a gazillion times. Met a LOT of attendings, a few were absolutely wonderful people. Many were not. Many acted like they could care less once the got your filing fee. How much does it cost to get placement? Hmmm I spent about $30,000+, $22,000 one year alone, and came up empty handed. So don't spew crap about how people are going to get placement if they "try harder" and all that garbage when you haven't been through the process, scrambled, or reapplied at least once.
Its all about playing the game. Sprinkle in hard work, intelligence and luck. Biggest enemy is ego an personality extremes.- IMHO.
Podpal needs to be banned. They offer nothing of value to these forums. Like if you're so done with podiatry why are you still responding and participating on these forums?
GUMP YOU ARE A GENIUS! That's your solution to open forum discussion? I have the courage to share the 3 years of work that I put forth in an effort to get a residency off the ground, which would benefit so many students, and you're suggestion is to BAN ME????
Again, this is the big huge problem in podiatry. Ignorant wacko's like you. I offer nothing? What do you offer? I had the courage to speak out about how a handful of minor paperwork issues for the CPME prevented what could have been an amazing residency from developing. What have YOU done to increase residency spots?
Jellybean, how can you use the excuse that you're in no position to do anything. Neither was I. I spent countless hours finding pods willing to be attendings, meeting with several hospital chief's, finding a hospital willing to take a risk on a pod residency program. Why can't you do that too? Why can't all of you?
And after it's all said and done, fellow colleagues would want to ban me? Wow. How is this not screwed up?
Sounds to me like you're the "know it all" as you say. How many residency programs have you developed? Obviously you think that starting a residency program is so easy a caveman can do it. So, I must ask, what have YOU done to start more programs? Or are you simply speaking as a brown nosing ignoramous?
The whole point of this forum is for anonymity, or am I incorrect? If you are that interested in the piles of research papers I've developed you may PM me and I'll give some to you. None of them have to do with surgery. How about you Prove Who You Are since anonymity is obviously meaningless to you.Podpal still hasn't answered ankle breakers questions about his/her "research". Prove you are who you say you are if you want people to respect what you post on here rather than think you're just a troll.
I don't agree podpal should be banned. She(?) has the right to voice her opinion. But hopefully everyone reading the posts recognize they may be embellished due to a bad experience and hatred for the profession.
It ain't all sunshine, gum drops and flowers out there, but the doom and gloom stories need to be taken with a grain of salt as well.
But reading all of her posts, they CANNOT be serious. "TOO smart to match!?!?!?!" Soooo residency programs all pick the DUMBEST students because they have the most to learn?? This is about as nonsensical of a defense mechanism as I could possibly imagine.
What are you talking about? The residency genesis has created 52 new spots through adding more spots to current programs and creating many new residency programs. New programs who are affiliated with strong hospitals. The shortage is not nearly as catastrophic as it once was projected two years ago after a lackluster match rate. I'm sorry the residency genesis failed you and your personal crusade to start a program of your own but it seems to be working for many other individuals who have stepped forward to create new podiatry residency programs across the US. Become more informed about what is currently going on rather than rehashing the past over and over and over again. Podiatry is not all sunshine and rainbows, I think that's been established by many posters in the past and anyone with a brain understands that there comes a certain amount of risk when pursuing this medical career. Anyone who doesn't have some apprehension about this profession heading into podiatry school or even during school is completely clueless and uninformed.