Berry vs NYCPM vs Temple

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Dear future PodDocs!
Can any of you provide information on the above three schools? Berry's website says they have a good sports medicine program, what does that mean? and it seems like some of the posts discriminate towards NYCPM, is it because the school is inadequate and don't match up to the other Pmed Schools? what about Temple?

Thanks for helping out!!!
 
This thread could end up being pretty long. No student has attended all three schools to give you a valid comparison. Look up old threads about deciding on what school to go to. There are many of them. To be short, pick a school where YOU will succeed. All 3 schools listed will provide you with a DPM degree. Barry does provide an excellent sports med class, but I think the residency you go to would be more beneficial for providing great sports med training. The sports med class is taught by Dr. Losito, who is the Podiatrist for the Miami Heat and other teams around here. He offers one of the few sports med fellowships in the country. He also co-teaches the biomechanics class and lab. He brought in one of Shaq's orthotics and it made my size 15 foot look tiny. No one can tell you what school to go to, its just one of those decisions you have to make for yourself through personal observation and research.
 
The podiatrist I shadowed is the residency director .....and he told me the quality of students coming from ohio, iowa, and scholl are the best.....He strictly told me to stay away from new york and barry........It seems like you have taken DAT and not the MCAT. where you go to school will strongly affect where you will get the residency and how good of a residency. It's you choice but....I would personally only go to Iowa or scholl......hope this helps
 
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The podiatrist I shadowed is the residency director .....and he told me the quality of students coming from ohio, iowa, and scholl are the best.....He strictly told me to stay away from new york and barry........It seems like you have taken DAT and not the MCAT. where you go to school will strongly affect where you will get the residency and how good of a residency. It's you choice but....I would personally only go to Iowa or scholl......hope this helps
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Like I said, this thread could get very long. I am sad now because I will not get into a good residency since my DPM certificate will have Barry University on it. If only you warned me before I came here 2 years ago.
 
lets see said:
The podiatrist I shadowed is the residency director .....and he told me the quality of students coming from ohio, iowa, and scholl are the best.....He strictly told me to stay away from new york and barry........It seems like you have taken DAT and not the MCAT. where you go to school will strongly affect where you will get the residency and how good of a residency. It's you choice but....I would personally only go to Iowa or scholl......hope this helps
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Well I was born in Iowa, did undergrad in Iowa and go to DMU (pssst-its in IOWA). Therefore, I will skip years 2,3 and 4 collect 600 dollars and start my residency. A kick ass residency at that.
 
"lets see", congratulations. I thought I was sure, but you have done it.
 
lets see said:
The podiatrist I shadowed is the residency director .....and he told me the quality of students coming from ohio, iowa, and scholl are the best.....He strictly told me to stay away from new york and barry........It seems like you have taken DAT and not the MCAT. where you go to school will strongly affect where you will get the residency and how good of a residency. It's you choice but....I would personally only go to Iowa or scholl......hope this helps
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Sounds about right
 
It really doesn't matter. You get out what you put into it. Look at the past match lists for the schools and you pretty much see that each school puts students at top programs year in and year out.

Go where you are comfortable and think you can thrive. The name of the game is what kind of residency training you get, not where you went to school.
 
templepodnc said:
It really doesn't matter. You get out what you put into it. Look at the past match lists for the schools and you pretty much see that each school puts students at top programs year in and year out.

Go where you are comfortable and think you can thrive. The name of the game is what kind of residency training you get, not where you went to school.
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Wow, finally a sensible post.
The most important thing in the first two years of school is passing the boards. NYCPM board pass rate this year part I - 98.6%

The most important thing overall in school is the clinic. That is where you will learn. You should probably go somewhere with a busy clinic, so that you can see the largest array of cases possible. Again, NYCPM has a very busy clinic.

Why is there constant negativity on this site? Perhaps because its where students come when they are mad, upset, hating life, etc. Maybe thats why very few NY students post here. Or perhaps they are more professional than all of the negative people here.

"this one time i talked to this one guy on a bus somewhere and he said something bad about this school" <-- Great post.
 
Hey tyich...do you have any specific questions for us about the schools?
 
lets see said:
The podiatrist I shadowed is the residency director .....and he told me the quality of students coming from ohio, iowa, and scholl are the best.....He strictly told me to stay away from new york and barry........It seems like you have taken DAT and not the MCAT. where you go to school will strongly affect where you will get the residency and how good of a residency. It's you choice but....I would personally only go to Iowa or scholl......hope this helps
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The podiatrist you shadowed sounds like a really upstanding guy considering he is bashing the institutions that keep him in a job. Maybe you should go to all three schools just to see how AWESOME they are!!!
 
Every school graduates great pods and terrible pods, pods that are famous and those that are infamous or in prison, pods that are poor and pods that are rich, pods that do research and pods that do not, pods that are surgeons and those that do C&C.

pick a school that you think you will be happy at, that you think you can learn at, that you think you can thrive at and get good grades, then go to really strong externships even if you do not want a residency there, learn as much as you can.
 
I heard the exact opposite from a podiatry residency attending physician from the West Coast. He recommended Barry because of it's strong clinical training. He stated that Chicago had the best medical sciences training (first 2 years) and that Barry had the best clinical training (last 2 years) of all of the podiatry schools. Look at which students got the best residencies to determine the best schools. Barry students got the best in 2009. I know that the students at DMU have been bashing other schools for many years, that might make some pre-pods believe that DMU is a top school, but everyone else thinks it makes your program look like the gossip that nobody wants to work with.
 
Congrats to temple on your bball conference championship. I'm kind of jealous you have a good bball team to watch.
 
Zyxwvuts said:
I heard the exact opposite from a podiatry residency attending physician from the West Coast. He recommended Barry because of it's strong clinical training. He stated that Chicago had the best medical sciences training (first 2 years) and that Barry had the best clinical training (last 2 years) of all of the podiatry schools. Look at which students got the best residencies to determine the best schools. Barry students got the best in 2009. I know that the students at DMU have been bashing other schools for many years, that might make some pre-pods believe that DMU is a top school, but everyone else thinks it makes your program look like the gossip that nobody wants to work with.
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Your post is entirely subjective. Students from all of the schools get great residencies. Who's "best residency" list is this? IF your post was accurate, what happened years previous to 2009?

Pre-pods: go to school where you'll be the most comfortable and will learn the most. That will be different for each student. Going to school X doesn't guarantee you anything.
 
The title of this thread makes me a little crazy.


Just curious, have any "Berry" alum dropped by yet?
 
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