Mute point. No 2 medical schools have the same curriculum so why would podiatry consolidate and have a uniform curriculum. Each school covers the same material it just gets from point A to point B in a different way per CPME just like every medical school in the country.
My 2 cents on the school debate (like anyone will care), but it really doesn't matter where you go to school. School is school when it comes down to it. Working hard at said school will go further than the particular school you attend. What really matters and what people look at when you go to interview for a job is the post graduate training you receive. Residency is where it's at. If you look at residency programs, there's only maybe a handful, at best, that have a school affiliation. When you apply to programs, all they care about in the end is a compasionate individual who's teachable, can work hard, is a team player and has nominal intelligence. These are qualities that I've had multiple residency directors and residents tell me they care about in their applicants. So really, when it comes down to it, the school you attend doesn't really matter, it's the opportunity to learn while your there what matters more and your ability to capitalize off of that opportunity.
We're all in this together. We're one of the smallest medical professions and we need to stick together and not try to divide. People have their own reasons for attending a particular school and berating and belittling people for making that choice, quite honestly, is in poor taste and shows little tolerance and no professionalism. We're all going to be colleagues and when your at a conference listening to someone give a speech, do you really think people are in the back snickering about "oh God, he went to Barry, what a *****!" No, there evaluating that speech based on EBM and trying to learn and critically analyze. There's people that go to the "top schools" that are just as inept and poor students as people that go to the "bottom schools."
