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Anyone come across this site? http://www.angelfire.com/on/podiatry/ sheds a negative light on podiatry and is making my head hurt.
"Podiatry Bytes"- Whats the deal
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As far as I can tell, it is from someone who no doubt failed in the profession. Interesting how people that fail often attempt to place blame on someone or something other than themselves. The person made a website for gosh sakes!
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A few years ago there were more pod graduates than available residency positions. This screwed over a number of people as pretty much every state required at least 1 year of residency to practice pod medicine. I would be really pissed off too if I spent all that money on schooling and ended up without a residency. It's bull**** for the schools (at the time) to accept more students than available residency spots. Hopefully this garbage does not happen again, especially with a new california school opening up next year with a class of 50 students. You would think the CPME/APMA/etc would get their heads out of their asses and not let history repeat itself. If you are doing well in pod school classes and rotations, I don't think one has to worry too much. However, for the people at the bottom of the class, that may be a different story.
With MD and DO's, there are much more residency positions available than graduates. 25% of current residents are FOREIGN medical school graduates (caribbean and elsewhere). Sure, you might not get a derm or orthopedic surgery residency, but you will have a position somewhere in the united states at least.
For general dentistry, I only think 4-5 states require a 1 year GPR/AEGD residency to practice. For the rest, you can go right into practice when your finish d school. Considering about 80% of dentists are General dentists, there is not really a problem.
Ever check out the optometry forums? You got a few people in there complaining about their profession and what retail (ie Walmart) has done to them. If we ever see stores like "footcrafters" or pods working at walmart/target/stop and shop, then we may have problems with our profession.
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Where are all of the sob stories? I was aware of "podiatry bytes" and the group in network54. A few out of 15,000 isn't bad!
There was the whole more students than residency issue back in the 90's (something like one slot for every 4 students or something) which did cause some backlash which has been elluded too. I would say also that earlier in the profession, pods had a lot less options and would often start out on their own. Regardless of training, if you're a poor businessman, you're doomed. In this day and age when podiatry is considered mainstream medicine, more docs go in with various groups/hospitals which makes for more financial security and less risk.
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as other posters have said, it was an issue of lack of residency. look at the dates on that site, they are from a time when the field was at its lowest. if those were recent negative posts then i'd be worried! but all the negativity i've read was in the late 90s.
fact: not doing a residency is absolutely killer. that is were you actually 'develop' into a real doctor and learn. if an md/do didn't do residency it would be pointless and they would be left out in the gutter as well. but residency isn't a problem for md/do (granted it may not always be the one they like). and fortunately for podiatry, getting a residency is no longer a problem. but if somehow it ever goes back to the way it was (lack of residency) the field will be in very big trouble. i dont, however, see this as a problem. just as osteopathic medicine developed/developing, podiatry is and will continue to do so as well.
also, i want to mention that there will always be bashing and politics no matter where you go. one thing i've learned is those who put down other fields or have some god complex are the most insecure people. i remember a few years ago i talked on aim to some guy called osudoc (with some numbers, year in the name). i forget how i got his screen name but it wasn't from SDN. he was in DO school and when i talked to him i never talked to someone so bitter, insecure, and unhappy with themselves. just the other day i was searching old SDN threads and surprizingly came across him on here, and it appears he hadn't changed a bit. sad.
fact: not doing a residency is absolutely killer. that is were you actually 'develop' into a real doctor and learn. if an md/do didn't do residency it would be pointless and they would be left out in the gutter as well. but residency isn't a problem for md/do (granted it may not always be the one they like). and fortunately for podiatry, getting a residency is no longer a problem. but if somehow it ever goes back to the way it was (lack of residency) the field will be in very big trouble. i dont, however, see this as a problem. just as osteopathic medicine developed/developing, podiatry is and will continue to do so as well.
also, i want to mention that there will always be bashing and politics no matter where you go. one thing i've learned is those who put down other fields or have some god complex are the most insecure people. i remember a few years ago i talked on aim to some guy called osudoc (with some numbers, year in the name). i forget how i got his screen name but it wasn't from SDN. he was in DO school and when i talked to him i never talked to someone so bitter, insecure, and unhappy with themselves. just the other day i was searching old SDN threads and surprizingly came across him on here, and it appears he hadn't changed a bit. sad.
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There are frequently threads on the M.D. pages in which poster after poster laments going to medical school and swears they wouldn't do the same thing over again. They usually cite declining compensation, paperwork, defensive medicine, patients who don't take care of themselves, patients who think their google skills make them medical experts, etc.
PAs seem mostly happy, but I've seen a few threads in which people say they wouldn't go into the field again if they knew the salaries wouldn't be as high as advertised.
PAs seem mostly happy, but I've seen a few threads in which people say they wouldn't go into the field again if they knew the salaries wouldn't be as high as advertised.
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You can find this info by doing a search in the Podiatry threads on student doctor network. To quickly answer your question, a new Podiatry school will be opening at Western University in Pomona, CA.
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There's actually a chain called FootSolutions here in Phoenix. Not sure if they're in other places, but they specialize in orthotics and are in strip malls. Each sales associate even has some kind of hokey certificate saying they're a 'foot specialist' or something like that. Ha ha!
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Foot Solutions is a national chain with franchises in each major city. The company is owned by a pedorthotist. Each store may or may not have a pedorthotist on the sales staff. They typically rip off customers by selling OTC inserts and labelling them as custom and charge the customers anywhere from 50 to 350 dollars for them. I kind of like having them around because it helps drive business to me.
