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hey, i'm just messing with you guys. podiatry is great for whoever has a passion for it. But I have been posting the truth though, no lies.
 
hey, i'm just messing with you man. MD/DO is great for whoever has a passion for it. But I have been posting the truth though, no lies.
 
PsychPod said:
Someone gets rejected from everything. Like you did from that hot girl in class because you spent more time studying than working out or developing better social skills.
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okay, I guess you think your reply is smart, huh? The difference is that what I posted is the truth and what you posted....well no one knows if it's true or not because you don't know me and neither does anyone else.

Your pod admissions process is a joke.
 
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SkipJunior said:
okay, I guess you think your reply is smart, huh? The difference is that what I posted is the truth and what you posted....well no one knows if it's true or not because you don't know me and neither does anyone else.

Just accept it that people will look down upon you in the medical field and in the real world because you are a measly pod, lol. Do you think hot chicks want to be a rich MD/DO or a pod who earns half the salary? Start living in the real world, lol. Your pod admissions process is a joke.
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In the real world? Yeah right. Most of prestige stuff is crap anyways. Make more than 100k a year, tell the ladies you're a foot and ankle surgeon, and boom. We get the same benefits MD/DO's do.

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Half the salary isn't true. Closer to 75% the salary, and that's just the average. The best pod's make bank brah. There are millionaire pods, and there are pod's who struggle. It all depends how good you are.

The admissions are a joke though.

SkipJunior said:
See I can treat ailments of the foot and everywhere else in the body. You just have to deal with stinky feet all day lol. Have fun giving foot massages and clipping nails because that's what pods are known for, LOL.
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Can you do a total ankle replacement? Bunion surgery? Hammertoe surgeries? Dealing with ankle fractures, etc.

Nope.

Also the pod's of the past are not what is happening in the podiatry landscape. It's bceoming way more medical and surgical.
 
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SkipJunior said:
See I can treat ailments of the foot and everywhere else in the body. You just have to deal with stinky feet all day lol. Have fun giving foot massages and clipping nails because that's what pods are known for, LOL.
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🙄
 
footNankle said:
Honestly if I were a girl at a bar and a guy walked up to me and told me he was a surgeon, I would be a lot more impressed than if I guy walked up to me and told me he was an internist.
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maybe, until she finds out his salary and realizes he isn't a "proper doctor". People aren't dumb. A pod can't make nowhere near what a MD/DO surgeon can make.
 
SkipJunior said:
maybe, until she finds out his salary and realizes he isn't a "proper doctor". People aren't dumb. A pod can't make nowhere near what a MD/DO surgeon can make.
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People aren't dumb?
The average person thinks that a PA or a NP is a full fledge MD.
The average person when they hear podiatry school, they call in medical school.
You tell the average person that you went to 11-12 years of school, are able to do surgeries and wear scrubs, and they'll call you a surgeon same as any MD specialty.

Find's out his salary? The average salary is close to 200k and that includes pod's which do mainly clipping, orthotics and very basic care.
The surgically and medically minded pod's can make 200k+ pretty easily.
They literally work for Ortho groups in similar capacity to Ortho Surgeons.
Sometime in medical multi practices, they provide all encompassing care for the ankle down in the entire practice.
 
PsychPod said:
We're all pretty good looking brah..we slay.
The best pod's make bank brah.
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Damn I'm either getting too old for these forums, or the Pre-Meds/Pods/Dents/Opto of this generation have a deteriorating vocabulary at an alarming rate...

Patient: Doc, I think I need an X-ray.
Doctor: Sure thing brah. BTW we slay brah.
 
Interestingly enough, looks like PsychPod agrees with my initial post in this thread.
 
newlifedrj said:
Damn I'm either getting too old for these forums, or the Pre-Meds/Pods/Dents/Opto of this generation have a deteriorating vocabulary at an alarming rate...

Patient: Doc, I think I need an X-ray.
Doctor: Sure thing brah. BTW we slay brah.
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He went to Caribbean MD school.
Had to get on his level :clap:

But yes, our vocabularies are becoming worse and worse by the day!
 
PsychPod said:
He went to Caribbean MD school.
Had to get on his level :clap:

But yes, our vocabularies are becoming worse and worse by the day!
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What an intelligent reply. Especially since I never used such crude lingo in my posts. Guess you just got owned, brah 😉
 
Look, SkipJunior, we all know you're bitter because you went out of your way to get your two letters behind your name and now you're stuck doing something that has nothing to do with those two letters. Boohoo. No need to come to the pod threads and put down our profession and calling it a joke. There are plenty of pods out there who are qualified to be DO/MDs but they choose to be a DPM instead and they are HAPPY. So do us all a favor and go cry somewhere else.
 
Pod Zilla said:
Look, SkipJunior, we all know you're bitter because you went out of your way to get your two letters behind your name and now you're stuck doing something that has nothing to do with those two letters. Boohoo. No need to come to the pod threads and put down our profession and calling it a joke. There are plenty of pods out there who are qualified to be DO/MDs but they choose to be a DPM instead and they are HAPPY. So do us all a favor and go cry somewhere else.
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I agree in principle with what you're writing. However my beef is not with podiatry or DPM, it's with the podiatry admissions process. The podiatry admissions process is a joke and is truly an insult to all the successful DPMs out there who are as smart and capable as MD/DO. Why are you defending this sham of an admissions process where no one gets rejected?
 
As a side note to my mature friends on here, I'm not actually knocking internists or family medicine physicians. They are a very vital part of the care team, just like podiatrists.
 
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ezking said:
Just throwing this out there: I had a 30 on my MCAT and a 3.6 and chose Pod (first year whoop, whoop). I had always thought Carribean MD schools were a joke.
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Carib MD schools are a joke
 
footNankle said:
As a side note to my mature friends on here, I'm not actually knocking internists or family medicine physicians. They are a very vital part of the care team, just like podiatrists.
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well you're showing your bias towards internists and FM quite well, my dear sir
 
SkipJunior said:
I agree in principle with what you're writing. However my beef is not with podiatry or DPM, it's with the podiatry admissions process. The podiatry admissions process is a joke and is truly an insult to all the successful DPMs out there who are as smart and capable as MD/DO. Why are you defending this sham of an admissions process where no one gets rejected?
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I am defending the profession I have chosen to pursue, which includes the education portion. You are correct that our admissions process is not as prestige as DO/MDs, etc. But have you thought about why? Not many people know about podiatry; majority of the population believe we are MDs. Even most pre-meds don't know about it. You will get rejected if you are a sub-par applicant and only apply to the smaller schools. Check previous years' threads, people do get rejected. But ultimately, if they want to, they will get into a school that isn't their "top" choice.
 
SkipJunior said:
well you're showing your bias towards internists and FM quite well, my dear sir
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Sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet. I have no bias against any type of physician. And even if I did, at least I don't use my free time to go on their respective forum and make fun of them.

Yes, the admission process is a joke, and yes, this is why there is a higher attrition rate at pod schools. But this doesn't change the fact that the students that graduate from podiatry schools are masters of what they do, just like students from any other medical school.
 
Pod Zilla said:
I am defending the profession I have chosen to pursue, which includes the education portion. You are correct that our admissions process is not as prestige as DO/MDs, etc. But have you thought about why? Not many people know about podiatry; majority of the population believe we are MDs. Even most pre-meds don't know about it. You will get rejected if you are a sub-par applicant and only apply to the smaller schools. Check previous years' threads, people do get rejected. But ultimately, if they want to, they will get into a school that isn't their "top" choice.
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Let me give an example. I have a friend who applied to all 9 pod schools who a 18 MCAT and 3.0 GPA in the past cycle. He had done all the usual pod shadowing, pod LOR etc. He was accepted at 5 schools and waitlisted at 4. That is ridiculous.

The DPM basic science curriculum is very rigorous, as rigorous as MD/DO basic sciences, how can pod school expect someone with such sub-standard stats to succeed in pod school. That's not fair to the school, the applicant, or the profession.
 
footNankle said:
Sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet. I have no bias against any type of physician. And even if I did, at least I don't use my free time to go on their respective forum and make fun of them.

Yes, the admission process is a joke, and yes, this is why there is a higher attrition rate at pod schools. But this doesn't change the fact that the students that graduate from podiatry schools are masters of what they do, just like students from any other medical school.
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True, but have you thought about the struggles of the pod school dropouts? How they will pay for all those loans with no lucrative pod job? That's why I'm firmly against Carib MD schools too.
 
SkipJunior said:
Let me give an example. I have a friend who applied to all 9 pod schools who a 18 MCAT and 3.0 GPA in the past cycle. He had done all the usual pod shadowing, pod LOR etc. He was accepted at 5 schools and waitlisted at 4. That is ridiculous.

The DPM basic science curriculum is very rigorous, as rigorous as MD/DO basic sciences, how can pod school expect someone with such sub-standard stats to succeed in pod school. That's not fair to the school, the applicant, or the profession.
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I agree with you. That's why the smaller schools generally have better matriculation stats than compared to the larger schools. Their selection process is much more thorough and they get to pick the students that they want in their program that will succeed, thus attrition rate is low in these schools The larger schools, such as Kent that accepts up to 125 students for their class, are not thinking about the students' success. They are worried about filling those seats.

SkipJunior said:
True, but have you thought about the struggles of the pod school dropouts? How they will pay for all those loans with no lucrative pod job? That's why I'm firmly against Carib MD schools too.
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You yourself have completed a rigorous professional school and now you're in the same boat as these pod school dropouts. How are you paying your student loans?
 
Pod Zilla said:
I agree with you. That's why the smaller schools generally have better matriculation stats than compared to the larger schools. Their selection process is much more thorough and they get to pick the students that they want in their program that will succeed, thus attrition rate is low in these schools The larger schools, such as Kent that accepts up to 125 students for their class, are not thinking about the students' success. They are worried about filling those seats.



You yourself have completed a rigorous professional school and now you're in the same boat as these pod school dropouts. How are you paying your student loans?
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There's a common element between the large pod schools and the Carib MD schools, greed. Pure unbridled greed. For a pod school adcom member to admit an applicant with extremely poor academic performance despite knowing that pod school is extremely challenging is a criminal act. It shows clearly that the pod school doesn't care about the applicant's future or the profession of podiatry, they only care about receiving that first year tuition and fees.

You know who else suffers from this sham of an admissions process? Hard working capable pod students like you who have a genuine passion of podiatry. You know why the American medical profession looks down upon pods and carib md students? The reason is that they know that both these schools have very lax admission standards so they assume that all students from such schools are sub-par.
 
I'm not paying my loans because I'm unemployed. I've had to declare bankruptcy, my credit rating is shot, and the loans are like a stone around my neck. The judge has ruled that I will have to make monthly installments when I find a job (with outrageous interest charges on top).

I don't want any pod school dropouts to have to go through what I'm going through now.
 
SkipJunior said:
I'm not paying my loans because I'm unemployed. I've had to declare bankruptcy, my credit rating is shot, and the loans are like a stone around my neck. The judge has ruled that I will have to make monthly installments when I find a job (with outrageous interest charges on top).

I don't want any pod school dropouts to have to go through what I'm going through now.
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I hope everything turns out okay with your life man. Seriously.

It'll all turn out alright.

Sorry for being mean.
 
SkipJunior said:
You know who else suffers from this sham of an admissions process? Hard working capable pod students like you who have a genuine passion of podiatry. You know why the American medical profession looks down upon pods and carib md students? The reason is that they know that both these schools have very lax admission standards so they assume that all students from such schools are sub-par.
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I don't believe we are being looked down upon. If so, we wouldn't be hired by orthopedic groups and large hospitals to work alongside physicians (MD/DO). I believe the podiatry profession has been largely misunderstood by the public and the world of medicine as well. This is in part due to the lack of regulations within our profession. For the longest time, the type of training a podiatrist would get and the type of residencies available ranged greatly. But CPME has done a great job in moving this field into the right direction by mandating the number of years of residencies and all graduates coming out of their residencies have the same exact base of knowledge. And this has only changed in recent years so it's going to take awhile before the rest of the medicine world to catch on that podiatry IS medicine and it is not going away.
 
SkipJunior said:
I'm not paying my loans because I'm unemployed. I've had to declare bankruptcy, my credit rating is shot, and the loans are like a stone around my neck. The judge has ruled that I will have to make monthly installments when I find a job (with outrageous interest charges on top).

I don't want any pod school dropouts to have to go through what I'm going through now.
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I really hope life turns around for you. It's a shame that this can happen. Have you ever thought of the military? I'm not exactly how that is going to work but I do know they have residencies as well. Different branch does different things. It's worth looking into.
 
I wish you the best of luck as well.. I apologize and have deleted one of my previous comments as I was unaware of your situation.
 
footNankle said:
I wish you the best of luck as well.. I apologize and have deleted one of my previous comments as I was unaware of your situation.
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no worries, some of my earlier comments were immature too.
 
Pod Zilla said:
I really hope life turns around for you. It's a shame that this can happen. Have you ever thought of the military? I'm not exactly how that is going to work but I do know they have residencies as well. Different branch does different things. It's worth looking into.
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I'd rather not get caught in the middle east and have my head cut off. Unfortunately tours to war zone are mandatory as an army physician, regardless of what recruiters say.
 
SkipJunior said:
I'd rather not get caught in the middle east and have my head cut off. Unfortunately tours to war zone are mandatory as an army physician, regardless of what recruiters say.
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It might sound outside of your realm, but consider med device/pharma sales.
Your ability to understand the actual purposes, benefits, etc of all the drugs and devices might help you sale, and be an accept salesman.
Possibly research associate type jobs. There is a ton out there, and although it may pay 1/10 what physician work does, it'll help you make dent's in your burden.
Also consider maybe getting something in the admin world of healthcare, and/or maybe healthcare consulting.
I'm sure there is stuff out there for you to do and that will give you a full life.
You may be set back, but it aint over till the fat lady sings.
 
PsychPod said:
It might sound outside of your realm, but consider med device/pharma sales.
Your ability to understand the actual purposes, benefits, etc of all the drugs and devices might help you sale, and be an accept salesman.
Possibly research associate type jobs. There is a ton out there, and although it may pay 1/10 what physician work does, it'll help you make dent's in your burden.
Also consider maybe getting something in the admin world of healthcare, and/or maybe healthcare consulting.
I'm sure there is stuff out there for you to do and that will give you a full life.
You may be set back, but it aint over till the fat lady sings.
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Thanks, I will look into it. Wish you all the best as a pod physician, brah.
 
Have you maybe looked into practicing medicine in a different country? Depending on the country I would imagine you'd be able to practice in some capacity without a residency.
 
footNankle said:
Have you maybe looked into practicing medicine in a different country? Depending on the country I would imagine you'd be able to practice in some capacity without a residency.
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There are possibilities in places like Africa which I'm open to but first, I'm going to try to match into a prelim spot in 2015. My goal for now is to obtain a general practitioner license.
 
wow, this thread definitely changed tone by the end of it! SkipJunior, if you don't mind sharing could you explain what happened? I have friends who are doing Carrib MD programs and was wondering what happened with you...
 
go work in the oil fields for a couple years to wipe your debt out.
 
So did the moderators for this site take a vacation or do they simply not follow the pre-podiatry forum?

How has this dude not been kicked off?
 
SkipJunior said:
I agree in principle with what you're writing. However my beef is not with podiatry or DPM, it's with the podiatry admissions process. The podiatry admissions process is a joke and is truly an insult to all the successful DPMs out there who are as smart and capable as MD/DO. Why are you defending this sham of an admissions process where no one gets rejected?
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It's easy to get in. Hard to stay in. You only reap the benefits of this profession, and any other health profession, mind you, if you put in the dedication and hard work necessary in order to succeed. Period. I'm sorry you're so bitter about this process. Good luck with your loans.
 
SkipJunior said:
Let me give an example. I have a friend who applied to all 9 pod schools who a 18 MCAT and 3.0 GPA in the past cycle. He had done all the usual pod shadowing, pod LOR etc. He was accepted at 5 schools and waitlisted at 4. That is ridiculous.

The DPM basic science curriculum is very rigorous, as rigorous as MD/DO basic sciences, how can pod school expect someone with such sub-standard stats to succeed in pod school. That's not fair to the school, the applicant, or the profession.
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You are trying to make it sound like they accept a whole bunch of students with poor stats. The average stats across all the schools are somewhere around a 3.3/23 and they will only go up as awareness builds. If they were just taking in people who didn't try at all the numbers wouldn't be at that level. No, a 23 MCAT is not good in comparison to what you need for a US MD school, but it also doesn't mean you are an idiot. The only reason you need a 30+ for US med schools is because of the competition, not because it's a score that dictates whether you have the brains to understand the material. The awareness is low for pod school so people with lower MCAT scores can get in.
 
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