Run Away From Podiatryby 3rd year out (no login)Podiatry is a crap shoot. I had 3.8 gpa, 96 ave board scores and ended up with a psr 12. I flew around the country for 2 years after that looking for another year, so were a bunch of others, and I got nothing. There are not enough prs 24+ residencies to go around. Not then, not now. If you have any doubts, call the schools and ask them. If you do not get psr 24 you CAN NOT get boarded. If you can't get boarded you can't get on staff at hospitals or insurance panels. If you can't do that you will starve. Or you could cut toenails in nursing homes, boy 8 years of college and 150k in debt to cut toenails. A few lucky ones make it. But more than a few deserving ones DO NOT. Are you going to gamble 150k on a profession that DOES NOT GUARANTEE adequate training? If you are MD/DO you may not get the first choice but you will get adequate post graduate training to become boarded and have the opportunity for a viable practice. Podiatry DOES NOT have enough psr 24 residencies to go around. DO YOU want to gamble the rest of your life on this? Think long and hard. Do not listen to students. They have no idea what it is like in the real world. Life is glamourous because they are "Doctors" They are arguing the finer points of PMSIV and MSIV, who cares???? The students tell of all the greatness of podiatry, they refuse to believe anything negative because they do not want to admit the profession they chose is anything but the greatest thing since sliced bread. To admit it is not would be to admit they willfully chose poorly, and who among us wants to admit that. Not me, and I have been out a few years, but I did choose poorly. I had it all good grades, personality and all that other crap that gets you voted most likely to succeed, but it was not enough in podiatry. Heck, I got straight A's in my first year except for one class, can you guess which one? Yes folks that's right I got my only B in 1st year Podiatric Medicine. What does that tell you about this profession? Or was it just that I didn't work hard enough on those essay questions for the washed up toenail clipper who taught the class? Find another career, forget podiatry. My agenda: To help save future prospective students from gambling on this career. Good Night from IP address 198.70.220.60 Goto Forum Home |
| Response Title | Author and Date |
| Yo, 3rd year! | Anomalous on Dec 3, 10:22 AM |
| which schools? | student on Dec 5, 7:15 PM |
| Thanks | Anomalous on Dec 9, 10:41 PM |
| Congratulations on you acceptance! | Anonymous on Dec 10, 8:59 PM |
| Did you have to retake MCAT? | toedoc on Dec 29, 8:51 PM |
| Negative post or just the truth | on Dec 3, 5:46 PM |
| Really | 4th yr on Dec 3, 7:44 PM |
| The truth about podiatry as a career | Roger Scam, DPM on Dec 3, 11:04 PM |
| x-tra,x-tra, past the terrible twos | whocares on Dec 5, 7:58 PM |
| new pod on the block | on Dec 15, 10:59 AM |
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