The issue here for most people is for those who cant gain access to MD or DO, what are the pros and cons of Off shore MD, DPM or Mid-level.
Reiterating from before, while thousands of people earn off-shore MD, get some residency spot, and become practicing physicians, at least as many who start per year never earn a degree or get into a residency spot. Podiatry offers a degree that leads becoming a practicing medical specialist , treating people, doing surgery, and being a doctor for your patients, for hospital staff, and to your MD/DO/DPM colleagues. Only premeds make it out to be a big difference. In clinical practice, nobody, including other physicians, care whether it is a MD, DO or DPM. Doctors care about the specialty whether foot, hand, elbow, shoulder, knee, wound care, etc. DPM can be involved in resident training for MD and DO in the areas of wound care, diabetic complications, athletic/sports medicine. DPM now have a mostly national requirement of two year residency moving to mostly three year programs.
So the question that I ask students is, do you risk thousands of dollars of debt in an off-shore school where you have a high percentage who do not earn a degree or do not get a residency slot, thus never practicing medicine, or do you consider podiatry?