Bored Snorlax
Podiatry Proud
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The solution is straightforward: schools should create new questions for each exam. This approach could save people hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long run and raise podiatric standards. Given that we'll be dealing with actual human lives, and considering that the APMLE is a basic competency exam that's less challenging than the USMLE, struggling to pass after many years simply suggests a failure to learn the material properly in the first place. There are schools sitting below 70% first time pass rate and it’s scary to imagine what’s going on at those institutions.Well it’s not just unique to Kent and Temple. At my school which I will not name, there is at least 1 student right now who didn’t take Part 1 when the rest of the class did last year and is still in school about to advance to 4th year. I think it’s very unfair because at this point you don’t even know if this person is competent in the first 2 years of basic sciences but yet you are continuing to let them work in the clinic. I’m sure this wouldn’t be allowed to happen in a MD/DO program. It’s not the same as graduating them without passing but it’s still not cool. You must pass part 1 I think now at all the schools to graduate and for sure to be able to take part 2. Just seems like a bad situation to be in. I’m not sure how you would explain that to residency programs when they notice something is off about when you took the exam. That’s just my 2 cents. Maybe they are just being strung along for tuition dollars. You can’t put anything past podiatry schools at this point.