Rotations

[mathlegend]

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I know for MD/DO students, their rotations are the different specialties. But what are rotations like for podiatry students?

 

[dropfoot]

I know for MD/DO students, their rotations are the different specialties. But what are rotations like for podiatry students?

I may be wrong mathlegend, but i believe they are basically the same rotations plus or minus a couple.

 

[air bud]

if you want to know what rotations podiatry students do, try asking this question is in the podiatry student forum.

 

[rikhilp]

I know for MD/DO students, their rotations are the different specialties. But what are rotations like for podiatry students?

We do all the rotations except for Gynecology. ...Hopefully this will preserve our image of the female body.

 

[JEWmongous]

We do all the rotations except for Gynecology. ...Hopefully this will preserve our image of the female body.

No pysch rotation for pod people either...that's mandatory at MD/DO schools

A lot of 3rd and 4th year is different from the MD/DO's as well. Pod schools are notorious for having lectures in and throughout the 3rd year, while MD/DO's are strictly rotations (and seminars) in their "clinical" years. These guys will have something for example, 12 months of general surgery, 6 weeks of family practice, 4 weeks of pysch,etc. Each school has something different but there are mandatory weeks to meet.

It seems to vary at the pod programs (3rd year schedule) CSPM will have 4 days of clinic and 1 huge day of classes in 3rd year, Barry and OCPM will have 3 days of clinic and 2 lecture days, etc. Scholl supposedly switched to a 2+2 model like traditional medical schools, so we will see how that works.

Pod students have a lot of outpatient work at the student clinics in 3rd year, with some non-pod rotations as well. The pods will have a surgery rotation, but it will be "podiatric surgery", an orthopedics rotation but it's like casting, orthotics, biomechanics, a general podiatry rotation which involves pallative care and the like. Of course some schools are different, CSPM does 4 months for surgery during 3rd year, where 3 is related to podiatry and 1 is everything else - you are the first assist in surgery. I know one guy even helped with a boobjob haha. OCPM gives you a month of patient H & P at a local hospital ER. All the schools are a bit different.

The 4th year seems closest to the curriculum of traditional medical schools. You are provided with externship months to do podiatry (and even non-pod) rotations at hospitals around the country. DMU is pretty much as free as you can get (the whole 4th year is up to you) where others are bit more strict in how many away rotations are available. Some schools have internal medicine, general surgery, etc rotations to complete.

 

[mathlegend]

Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know that podiatry students did most of the MD/DO rotations...and podiatry students still have lectures 🙁 Nice to know though! Thanks!

 

[krabmas]

Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know that podiatry students did most of the MD/DO rotations...and podiatry students still have lectures 🙁 Nice to know though! Thanks!

MD/DO students also still have lectures in the 3rd and 4th years but they are rotation dependent for the most part and in the small group that you are rotating with. Some schools occasionally require the med students to return for a lecture about 1/month.

 

[mathlegend]

Oh, thanks for clearing that up!