Podiatry HAS changed over time don't be dissuaded from it

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Pods as we NOW know it is a whole different world from what it was, even as close as the late '90's. Salareis are up, as are oppportunites. It will only grow MORE in the future by the time most people here, even think about graduating from their residencies -- which will ALL be 3-year ones by then.

So get off this board and the negativity and start promoting your future, through focusing on studying and doing the BEST you can do. Don't listen to the naysayers. If DO's did 100 years ago, there wouldn't BE a DO profession today!

Just had to add/give this quick peptalk, to anyone worried about pods as a career. :)

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Let's continue this information session since so many people seem to be clueless as to a podiatric physician's education. The education consists of:
-4 years college (med school pre-reqs)
-4 years podiatric medical school
-3 years podiatric surgical residency

The most erroneous statement made is that podiatrists only know/need to know about the foot and ankle. While this is our specialty, we are also taught a great deal about general medicine. This is because we must medically manage our ER patients/surgical patients/inpatients. When called into the ER or managing our inpatients, we must have the ability to order a plethra of tests, read those tests, consult if necessary, and treat the patient accordingly.

So where do we get this medical education? Besides our first two years consisting of basic science and systems (as an MD/DO curriculum, some podiatry programs being fully integrated with MD/DO programs), and various general medical rotations 3-4 year (depending on the program), our first year of residency is an internship year where we rotate through many different medical specialties (ER, general surgery, path, IM, etc). And along with medically managing our own patients during residency, we are well educated by the time we finish residency.

Podiatric medicine is an extremely challenging and rewarding area of medicine. As stated before, make SURE this is what you want to do because, unlike MD/DO, you can't just change your mind on specialties!
 
jonwill said:
Let's continue this information session since so many people seem to be clueless as to a podiatric physician's education. The education consists of:
-4 years college (med school pre-reqs)
-4 years podiatric medical school
-3 years podiatric surgical residency

The most erroneous statement made is that podiatrists only know/need to know about the foot and ankle. While this is our specialty, we are also taught a great deal about general medicine. This is because we must medically manage our ER patients/surgical patients/inpatients. When called into the ER or managing our inpatients, we must have the ability to order a plethra of tests, read those tests, consult if necessary, and treat the patient accordingly.

So where do we get this medical education? Besides our first two years consisting of basic science and systems (as an MD/DO curriculum, some podiatry programs being fully integrated with MD/DO programs), and various general medical rotations 3-4 year (depending on the program), our first year of residency is an internship year where we rotate through many different medical specialties (ER, general surgery, path, IM, etc). And along with medically managing our own patients during residency, we are well educated by the time we finish residency.

Podiatric medicine is an extremely challenging and rewarding area of medicine. As stated before, make SURE this is what you want to do because, unlike MD/DO, you can't just change your mind on specialties!

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Excellent post jonwill!

I have a suggestion - why not pin this topic or create a pinned section as to introduce what podiatry is all about and pretty much include the information you have listed here. I think it will be a positive initiative to explain and address the misconceptions from other professional groups in this forum in a very elegant and presentable manner.
 
jonwill said:
Let's continue this information session since so many people seem to be clueless as to a podiatric physician's education. The education consists of:
-4 years college (med school pre-reqs)
-4 years podiatric medical school
-3 years podiatric surgical residency

The most erroneous statement made is that podiatrists only know/need to know about the foot and ankle. While this is our specialty, we are also taught a great deal about general medicine. This is because we must medically manage our ER patients/surgical patients/inpatients. When called into the ER or managing our inpatients, we must have the ability to order a plethra of tests, read those tests, consult if necessary, and treat the patient accordingly.

So where do we get this medical education? Besides our first two years consisting of basic science and systems (as an MD/DO curriculum, some podiatry programs being fully integrated with MD/DO programs), and various general medical rotations 3-4 year (depending on the program), our first year of residency is an internship year where we rotate through many different medical specialties (ER, general surgery, path, IM, etc). And along with medically managing our own patients during residency, we are well educated by the time we finish residency.

Podiatric medicine is an extremely challenging and rewarding area of medicine. As stated before, make SURE this is what you want to do because, unlike MD/DO, you can't just change your mind on specialties!
Good job, jonwill buddy. I'm just a giant cheerleader with a big mouth. But you put it into a nice synopsis and very succinctly. Maybe you ought to be a recruiter for the profession, by going to colleges/schools to give talks on it? Hehee.

Seriously though, kudos for the nice sum-up of pods. :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
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