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In many ways podiatry has come a long, long ways. Residency training for all, with a much higher percentage getting good or great training.
As much as we justifiably knock the job market, there are mid size cities, often in fly over states where the majority of podiatrists are employed by ortho groups or hospital systems. If there is private practice it is usually not solo and a group with no mustache podiatrists. Sure they push Tolcylen, lotions, orthotics and laser toenail treatments to up their daily charges but they are not into the more scammy things and well trained. If one was from an are like this as a pre pod they would be convinced podiatry was a mainstream medical specialty. They would even see a good number of local doctors practicing and assume it would be easy to find a job. Although in the markets like this the reality is a locally raised and well trained applicant stands a decent chance of securing a good job, there are also fellows competing for these jobs. Not too long ago if one could time travel they would not believe podiatry had come so far in markets like this.
The rest of the country is not like this. Some areas it is mix with a bit of everything. Some areas of the country it is mainly solos or small groups with most doing well eventually and often opening their own practice after starting out as an associate. The scammy factor is a bit higher. There are also the saturated large cities often near schools with a podiatrist on every corner and the scammy factor through the roof and the worst of the worst associate jobs.
If only the first scenario was the norm and we can only dream that there will ever be an open unfilled organizational job that no one applied to. I see a slow continued growth in organizational jobs, but these often cutoff referral sources to private practice also. I still believe there will not be enough job growth for podiatry for anywhere near most to get organizational jobs. As it stands you have to hope for a good organizational job, but be willing to create your own job or be an associate. If enrollment stays down hopefully the poor associate jobs become less common. I do not think most going into podiatry school though they would be recruited for an organizational job, they just underestimated how competitive it would be to get one and how poor the associate jobs are in many areas. I think less also thought going in they might have to open their own practice. In years past many knew they would have to start their own practice or take over a retiring doctor's practice.....a good number still need to go this route even today to leave a bad associate job with no route or no fair route to partner.
As much as we justifiably knock the job market, there are mid size cities, often in fly over states where the majority of podiatrists are employed by ortho groups or hospital systems. If there is private practice it is usually not solo and a group with no mustache podiatrists. Sure they push Tolcylen, lotions, orthotics and laser toenail treatments to up their daily charges but they are not into the more scammy things and well trained. If one was from an are like this as a pre pod they would be convinced podiatry was a mainstream medical specialty. They would even see a good number of local doctors practicing and assume it would be easy to find a job. Although in the markets like this the reality is a locally raised and well trained applicant stands a decent chance of securing a good job, there are also fellows competing for these jobs. Not too long ago if one could time travel they would not believe podiatry had come so far in markets like this.
The rest of the country is not like this. Some areas it is mix with a bit of everything. Some areas of the country it is mainly solos or small groups with most doing well eventually and often opening their own practice after starting out as an associate. The scammy factor is a bit higher. There are also the saturated large cities often near schools with a podiatrist on every corner and the scammy factor through the roof and the worst of the worst associate jobs.
If only the first scenario was the norm and we can only dream that there will ever be an open unfilled organizational job that no one applied to. I see a slow continued growth in organizational jobs, but these often cutoff referral sources to private practice also. I still believe there will not be enough job growth for podiatry for anywhere near most to get organizational jobs. As it stands you have to hope for a good organizational job, but be willing to create your own job or be an associate. If enrollment stays down hopefully the poor associate jobs become less common. I do not think most going into podiatry school though they would be recruited for an organizational job, they just underestimated how competitive it would be to get one and how poor the associate jobs are in many areas. I think less also thought going in they might have to open their own practice. In years past many knew they would have to start their own practice or take over a retiring doctor's practice.....a good number still need to go this route even today to leave a bad associate job with no route or no fair route to partner.