Podiatry School Outcomes - revealed

[heybrother]

A few days ago, I received a Dean's Office email indicating that podiatry schools would begin sharing program outcomes. A classmate had suggested something similar to me last year, but I was skeptical that it would ever happen. However, a quick search today showed that some schools have actually begun to put information up.

http://www.nycpm.edu/outcomes.asp
http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/podiatric_medicine/requirements
http://www.dmu.edu/cpms/program-outcomes/
http://www.westernu.edu/podiatry/academics/podiatry-profession/
http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/scholl/SCPMProgramOutcomes.aspx
https://www.midwestern.edu/programs-and-admission/az-podiatric-medicine.html

Hopefully more to come (haven't searched all yet).

Added by me on 9/10/2014:
http://podiatry.temple.edu/sites/podiatry/files/Program Outcome Measures.pdf

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[heybrother]

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[PatchAdamsFan]

They should be doing this every year to comply with the Board Data Collection Project (CPME requirement from the CHEA)

 

[Toadesque]

Barry had a 94% pass rate on boards part 1 for the most recent class (1st attempt). Don't know any of their other numbers

 

[heybrother]

I'd much rather read about Barry's stats officially on their website. Same goes for Kent and Temple. Below is an email DMU students received:

The Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME) is now recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. As such, podiatry colleges/schools were mandated, effective July 1, 2014, to publish specific and self-selected program outcomes on the public website of the institution. Required outcomes included four-year graduation rates, national board exam first time pass results and residency placement rates.

 

[Pod Zilla]

https://www.barry.edu/podiatry/podiatry-medicine-school/about-the-program/cpme-outcomes.html

 

[heybrother]

Kent added there's. Several of there metrics have footnotes about "eligible" students next to them. Its not immediately clear to me what that means - for example: their overall board part 2 pass rate at the time of graduation is only for eligible students.

http://www2.kent.edu/cpm/current-students/upload/CPME-Stats-July-2014.pdf

 

[Pod Zilla]

So that begs the question: who are these "ineligible" students and why are they taking the boards?

 

[docaddictedtotravel1992]

Kent added there's. Several of there metrics have footnotes about "eligible" students next to them. Its not immediately clear to me what that means - for example: their overall board part 2 pass rate at the time of graduation is only for eligible students.

http://www2.kent.edu/cpm/current-students/upload/CPME-Stats-July-2014.pdf

So that begs the question: who are these "ineligible" students and why are they taking the boards?

I know for Scholl's stats, it lists:
"*Note: For residency placement "those eligible" are those graduates that have
passed both APMLE Part 1 & Part 2 Exams."

 

[heybrother]

I know for Scholl's stats, it lists:
"*Note: For residency placement "those eligible" are those graduates that have
passed both APMLE Part 1 & Part 2 Exams."

Yes, but I think most of us can wrap around brains around that - its an issue that's discussed every match season because students are ineligible to match if they don't pass part 2 on their second try which changes the number of students who are capable of matching (and in the era of a residency shortage changes the number of people who are in play). However, Kent states the board part 2 pass rate of eligible takers - why wouldn't all members of the class be eligible to take it? Prospective students deserve clarity - these asterisked results continue to obscure. Forcing schools to release their stats was a good idea, but every schools seems to have released something slightly different. They needed to spell out exactly how the values were to be determined. Also - just being a pessimistic skeptic - some of the schools who never released their numbers have better numbers than you would think which kind of makes me doubt them.