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[air bud]

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come on guys. comparing curriculum pages is crap. i am too lazy to look at some chiro school curriculum, but i bet they make it sound pretty good. It is the material actually taught, as well the instructors that is important.

Thats like sticking your head up a butchers ass and calling it a ribeye....or something like that.

 

[janV88]

come on guys. comparing curriculum pages is crap. i am too lazy to look at some chiro school curriculum, but i bet they make it sound pretty good. It is the material actually taught, as well the instructors that is important.

Thats like sticking your head up a butchers ass and calling it a ribeye....or something like that.

Don't you guys at DMU sit in the same classes as the DOs for the entire 1st year?

Western and AZPod sit in with the DOs for 1st and 2nd year.

I'm a little confused with what your point is?

 

[215353]

Don't you guys at DMU sit in the same classes as the DOs for the entire 1st year?

Western and AZPod sit in with the DOs for 1st and 2nd year.

I'm a little confused with what your point is?

I think Air Bud is saying that even though chiro schools and other health professional schools might teach similar classes to MD/DO/DPM schools...it doesn't necessarily mean they are of the same quality.

In my opinion, I think MD/DO/DPM curriculums, IN GENERAL, are of higher quality and more in depth then any other health professional curriculums...even though the standards for admission vary between the three.

 

[air bud]

What I am saying is every medical school (MD, DO, DPM) says the teach biochemistry, physiology, anatomy......etc. So comparing curriculum lists means mostly nothing. You can repackage and rename all these courses with fancy words, but that doesnt mean anything. HOWEVER, when you see something that clearly is not taught at other places, then that actually means something. For example, apparently OCPM and Barry have business classes. DMU does not (i hope for my sake and all others that they do soon.) Comparing schools this way makes sense.

 

[janV88]

What I am saying is every medical school (MD, DO, DPM) says the teach biochemistry, physiology, anatomy......etc. So comparing curriculum lists means mostly nothing. You can repackage and rename all these courses with fancy words, but that doesnt mean anything. HOWEVER, when you see something that clearly is not taught at other places, then that actually means something. For example, apparently OCPM and Barry have business classes. DMU does not (i hope for my sake and all others that they do soon.) Comparing schools this way makes sense.

I see what your saying and I totally agree. It's true that just because a course is called "biochemistry" does not mean what is actually taught is the same. I just assumed that because some Pod schools are taught side by side with DOs and most of the others are part of large and respected universities, that the courses would be comparable.

BTW, I recently read a question/answer blog post with the Deans of all the Pod Schools regarding Podiatry School education. They asked about business classes. The opinions of some of the Deans, in particular the Dean of Scholl, is that the business side of the profession would be taught during residency. I don't have enough knowledge on the subject, since I haven't even started Pod School yet, but IMO having business classes could only help.

 

[Sig Savant]

The DO program and the DPM program at Western University are the exact same for the first 2 years except for one class; they have OMM and we have PMP. We are in the same classes for all the basic sciences. We pay almost half of the tuition that the DO students pay though 🙂

I know rotations will be similar between the two programs, but not totally. Don't have any links though, sorry.

Let me get this straight...you don't take a course dedicated to the anatomy of the lower extremity?

 

[Sig Savant]

No LEAN?

 

[mildoc2016]

Let me get this straight...you don't take a course dedicated to the anatomy of the lower extremity?

dmu students take their lower extremity anatomy course during their second year

 

[janV88]

dmu students take their lower extremity anatomy course during their second year

sig savant was asking about Western not DMU.

 

[Sig Savant]

So please correct me if I am wrong. Students that have the same schedule as DO students are basically just DO students, not Pod students. Some may think this is nice, as they just want to be DOs. Others seem to actually want to be podiatrists, hence going to podiatry school/specialize early/take classes related to foot and ankle in their first two years. I think its crazy that some pod students don't take lower extremity anatomy as a separate course.

 

[165007]

So please correct me if I am wrong. Students that have the same schedule as DO students are basically just DO students, not Pod students. Some may think this is nice, as they just want to be DOs. Others seem to actually want to be podiatrists, hence going to podiatry school/specialize early/take classes related to foot and ankle in their first two years. I think its crazy that some pod students don't take lower extremity anatomy as a separate course.

If Western U doesnt teach lower ext ana, then it's setting up their students for failure.

 

[darazon]

Calm down everyone....

Yes, we get plenty of lower extremity anatomy.

We took it in depth in Gross Anatomy WITH the DO's and we also take it again in our PMP class (Podiatric Medical Principles) which goes the entire first 2 years -every week, which also includes in depth cadaver workshops.

PMP is a combination of anatomy, biomechanics, diseases, pathology, etc etc of the foot and ankle.

Thanks for all the concerns, but we're good on the LE anatomy 😉.

 

[UltimateHombre]

No. It is podiatry school. Not podiatric medical school. PODIATRY school.

I agree with this fully.... if you consider all the other "medical" professions... Dentists, Optometrists, Audiologists, Vets, etc... i have never heard any of them refer to their individual programs as "medical school"... and i think most of us on this forum would not take them seriously if they did...

Sure its called School of Dental Medicine or Veterinary Medicine. And i guess that you could refer to them as Audiological Medicine or Optometric Medicine, but in no means is it medical school at all...

Dental school is dental school. Optometry school is optometry school. Audiology school is audiology school. Med school is med school. And guess what.... Pod school is pod school!!

Cheers 😀😀😀

 

[Skippygonenuts]

Secondly, this talk of GPA/MCAT leaves out some other issues in the applicant pool that need to be addressed. Mainly, the desire to actually go into podiatry. We still have a lot of people who are either using this as a backdoor option into another field or they're doing it as Googlymello said, "..see podiatry school as that last chance to be a doctor." Has anyone seen Bobby Mercer lately (the regulars will know who I'm talking about)? No? Well, he's posting in the Vet forums inquiring about Vet school.

Just wondering how can pod work ak a backdoor for vet or any other type of program? People take a year in pod and do good and then transfer to another type of program? Because as far as I know the only roads pod led to were pod fellowships which are all pod-centric