I was looking through TUSPM's and NYCPM's websites since these are the two schools I am applying to. I was surprised to see that at least for the didactic years, these classes are taught by professors who are not podiatrists but rather have PhD's. In anyone's experience at these schools (or other colleges that have the same situation), does this affect anything? I guess the 1st year is one thing because any bio/medical related courses taught at the undergrad level are taught by PhD's, but when these professors teach about diseases...I mean how many diseases can someone who only focuses on research possibly encounter when they don't do clinical medicine? Does anyone know if this is the norm at MD and DO schools?
Getting taught by professors with PhD's and not DPM's
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Are you referring to the basic sciences in your first 2 years or clinical medicine in years 3 and 4?
Professors with PhD's is the norm for basic sciences classes. I attend a DPM/DO school and the majority of the two years is taught by those with a PhD. We will get a few DPM/DO/MD professors specific for the lecture topic. If you have PhD's teaching most of the pod specific courses you may want to stay away, haha.
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At Temple, second year pathology, and to a lesser extent, pharmacology are taught almost exclusively by MDs, the same who teach the MD and Dental students. It's the norm for PhDs to teach most of the basic sciences, at MD schools too. Second semester of 2nd year and 3rd your you do all of your clinical classes taught by DPMs.
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Same thing at AZPod. Pathology is taught by an MD and a DO, and there is an MD that teaches Pharm with the PhD's, but it is mostly PhD's for the first 2 years (minus the pod-specific classes). I don't feel that it is a bad thing. Look at it the other way around. Do you want your Biochem class taught by your podiatry faculty? Each area has it's experts. The only drawback that I have noticed is that when someone does have a clinical question, the professor can't always answer it right away, but in my experience they are usually good about looking it up, asking the people who do deal with it clinically, and getting back to you with the answer.
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Yep... gross anat, histo, physio, biochem, micro, etc should be PhDs. Path, pharm, derm, physical diagnosis, int med, surg principles, etc will probably be MDs.
The courses taught by DPMs are LEA, biomech, pod med, pod surg, sports med, and other clinical courses.
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No, DPMs know it all and can teach anything.
Is this thread a joke?
Are people really this clueless?
Is this thread a joke?
Are people really this clueless?
Thank you for bumping up my thread just to insult me. Yes, I am "this clueless" because I am not in Podiatry school yet, so obviously I don't know everything there is to know about that type of environment. I have always read on these forums that MDs and DPMs work at Podiatry schools, but never any mention of professors with PhDs. That's why I was surprised.
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whiskers
Well I am surprised that you have no clue about that. Kind of shocking is more like it.
And you want to be a medical school candidate?
Wow.
And you want to be a medical school candidate?
Wow.
