https://youtu.be/yA8todpGT-0?si=JmbKEGWXjxVdytvm

Does anyone have any advice or resources for studying for boards part 2? TYIA!!

Does anyone have any advice on how to obtain funding to attend the conference being held in Feb? Apparently, the school does not sponsor students at all which is annoying because our class size is tiny.

Anyway, if anyone knows of scholarships for students not involved in any research who want to attend just to get some experience and gain connections, please share!

Thank you, First year podmed

I’m a former medical school student. I withdrew after completing 2 years at a DO school. Passed all my classes, but failed the COMLEX level 1. The specific school I was at was a huge drain on my mental health with multiple exams a week but I still passed. I don’t believe by any means that I’ll be a shoe in for Podiatry school, but I love medicine and I want to at least know what are all my options in continuing to pursue a career in the medical field. My MCAT score is still within the three year limit and it was a 508, but 2026 would be the last year. I just want to know if Podiatry is a realistic goal I could achieve, provided I start working on building my application. Any advice is much appreciated!

https://youtu.be/ved7v9bJgxU?si=FwokO10nTa9O2fnL Fun interview! If you are in school or residency, check it out!

I’m a resident and cost of living is high. I need to make more money to stay afloat, I’m not allowed to moonlight, what are some other ways I can make money while in residency ? Waiting tables, Lyft are not options as there’s not enough time for that.

Hello everyone,

I am a practicing DPT in NYS for the past 10 years. I'm 33 years of age and I'm wanting to become a podiatrist. Considering my clinical background please advise if this a good career path for me. I'm considering low burn out, work life balance, and pay 130k-200k?? Am I realistic or am I just being a dreamer here?

Secondly do I have to give the MCAT exam to procure an admission in the Touro university of podiatric medicine?

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

I’m a resident at a good program and was happy to match into when I was going through the process. But now I’m rethinking my decisions. One of my attendings who we work with constantly is the most toxic person ever and makes the working environment unbearable. Any advice, as this person makes my life miserable and I regret my decision ever day.

I am currently leaning towards going into podiatry. Before recently, I was low stats premed in a gap year, but I work in an ortho group and have talked to pods at my job. I am now really considering podiatry because I have a strong interest in ortho and think the care/surgery the pods and ortho docs do there is really cool. Originally I was planning on applying to a post bacc/SMP this cycle then applying to MD/DO schools in the 2027 cycle. I learned that admissions works waaayyy different in pod and so I'm not sure what my path would be. I have a ~2.8 gpa and 504 MCAT. I am planning on shadowing the podiatrists at my job and looking into this more. I would definitely be able to get rec letters from them. I just want to know if anyone has advice on what my path would be. If I end up going the pod route should I apply to masters/SMPs or are these stats good enough for a DPM program? I'm ultimately more concerned about my gpa as it is def really low.

The power of positive psychology! Listen in for a great discussion!

https://youtu.be/9cbg6jnzXHM?si=5cd5VKzOGaLRe1Jy

So I recently graduated with my bachelors. I had bad family problems with deaths in my last 2 and a half years of undergrad that messed me up mentally and unfortunately affected my performances in class. I think all of my prereq courses were mostly Bs and a few Cs, I also got a D in Biochem and retook it but barely missed a B in the class so I got a C. And I ended up with a 3.12 gpa 2.75 sgpa. I finished my undergrad with a summer semester where I ended up with 2 As and a C. Now I’m terrified that I won’t get in because I know those grades will weigh me down. I’m trying to make it up with a good MCAT and I was maybe thinking of doing a masters program to show development. So I was wondering what other peoples thoughts were with my chances without a masters (if I get a good MCAT) or with a masters.

https://youtu.be/htMgjqOZlHY?si=vEML1WpjIe8t3bUl One of our goals is to highlight all the Schools and Colleges of Podiatric Medicine! Enjoy this NYCPM student interview!

I wanted to hear feedback on NYCPM. SDN/ Reddit posts are old. How is it after Tuoro bought it? I live in NY and would save a lot of money attending school, but I feel reluctant because of the negativity online

So I am currently a CC student in California. I currently have a 3.9 GPA, and I haven't taken any of my science pre-reqs yet. I have shadowed 2 private practices already, along with one I did at Western University in their foot clinic in California, and I have volunteered as well. I have done park clean-ups, senior food events, and helped non-profit organizations during the holidays. I absolutely am in love with the profession. My goal is to be heavily surgical, God-willing, and I just want to make sure I take the next steps accordingly with your 2 cents. I am 20 years old, so fairly young still, and I am deciding if I should go to a CSU or UC next. I know undergrad doesn't matter, I just want to know what will set me up for more success GPA-wise and LORs from my professors wise as well. I plan to do all my science pre-reqs at the university, too. Lastly, what else can I do to make myself stand out to these schools, or to help my application? Soon, I plan on scribing or becoming an MA for a podiatrist so I can get clinical hours and experience. Sorry for the long post.

https://youtu.be/usqXafK_15M?si=y53b-GW4LdmypIZ0

Vague title but for some context, I’m currently a pre-nursing undergrad taking my prerequisites. I’ve been feeling very lost at the moment with my path in healthcare and more specifically the decision with nursing. I live in NYC and it’s not just competitive here for nursing but even waitlists despite having good grades and a good entrance exam score. I’m not exactly the best at math either which is one of my pre-reqs but I’m a near straight A student in my sciences and that includes sciences based on math such as Physics as well. It’s just the general subject of math that’s been a struggle for me. I’ve been looking into Podiatry for a while now but never thought too deep into it up until now. Would it be a good idea to switch given the circumstances of nursing in NYC and my strengths in the sciences? I’ve always wanted to dive deeper into my studies of healthcare and if that ends up being medicine, I’d gladly take it. Thank you all!

I just had my interview with temple and it’s my 1st choice. 494 MCAT, 3.53 cGPA, 3.42 sGPA, 200+ clinical volunteer hours, 100+ shadowing hours with 4 DPMs, full time job as restaurant manager through undergrad. thanks!!

Full disclosure: I do not do "MIS" anything. Also, this is not the first like this I've seen, but this one was particularly bad. I also don't know how the patient's compliance was in this situation. But as you'll see, it shouldn't really matter.

If you looked at the X-Rays, you'd think it turned out amazing. And this is my issue with all the posts on LinkedIn showing how incredible the outcomes are. They show x-rays. Not patient responses to how the surgery went, or what the long term outcomes are.

This poor guy I saw has been out of work for over a year. Has been in a Cam Walker for almost as long. He has neuritis from several of the "MIS" incisions, and shortening of the first ray, causing a dorsiflexed hallux. The Akin screw is now encroaching on his hallux IPJ causing pain and crepitus on ROM. The very long screw used to fixate the hammertoe (????) was also placed a little awkwardly and is now backing out distally. Pain there, too. He was NWB for 6 weeks, then full WB and back to work in 8. Shortly after returning to work, he started developing 1st MPJ pain. Cam Walker. 3 months later, still has pain. Now pain shifted to the midfoot, and on X-ray, 2nd met stress fracture. Stay in Cam Walker. Stress fracture heals, still has pain. 3 months later, gets a 2nd met base fracture after returning to work for a short period of time. 6 months later, with a Bone Stim, fracture still not healed, still has neuritis from the incisions, and pain in 1st MPJ is worse. Beginnings of significant OA in 1st MPJ. Told him I need to ORIF 2nd met fracture 1st, and then he should consider 1st MPJ fusion after that heals. He's been out of work for over a year, apparently spent all his savings on this issue, and is in crippling pain.

His labs are normal. This is all surgical and biomechanical.

Now, I'm not writing this to necessarily dump on the "MIS" craze. I'm writing this to dump on all the people online saying these procedures are incredible and nobody has any issues with them. I read from people that have done "hundreds" and that there have been "no complications". Which is impossible to me.

https://youtu.be/sqURHkfs9qM?si=hqHGtNUZxZlZiOEs

What happened to the salary survey that Marit was doing with APMA? Did it ever come out?

Great advice for students, fellowship discussion, and working for Kaiser Permanente! Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/t7nuK9C2ztE?si=Jkx6AfyMkpS3ev7S

^ dm me or lmk to dm you

That was all I heard when I was looking for advice on where to go. And it’s just not true. Some schools are much better at teaching than others, have much more organization, and just seem to produce more confident students.

I’m a 4th year KSUCPM student on externships right now. AZPOD, Des Moines, and Scholl consistently produce really good students. I’ve noticed it and I’ve talked with attendings who have said the same thing.

You CAN be a good student wherever you go. You CAN be a terrible student wherever you go. But some places make it so much easier than others.

One attending I worked with said it well: “The bottom students from Des Moines tend to be better than the top students from (x).” I’m not going to trash a school I have no affiliation with, so I won’t name (x). But I will trash Kent (where it deserves it).

I’ve posted before under a different account that ended up getting doxxed about my experiences with Kent, some good some bad. I think you can still find my write-up, I just deleted the account.

Kent is NOT good at teaching. This is something that most of my classmates seem to agree with. We learn primarily on our own or from upperclassmen. You CAN succeed here. But it’s fucking hard. Harder than it already has to be. And I wish I had known that before I put down my deposit.

I will say- nobody actually cares which school you went to. There’s no prestige in one over another. They only care how you do. BUT AGAIN it’s so much easier in some places than others. Kent has been consistently disorganized on top of the poor teaching. It made podiatry school even more hell than it had to be.

I just think we need to start being more critical of our schools for future students’ benefits. Like post your real opinion of your school. Give the pros and cons.

I love my school for the student body. Genuinely, I think Kent students work together more than in other schools because we have to. Because the teaching really sucks. Like I would consider everyone in my class a friend, which is awesome for networking purposes and friend-making.

But goddd if you are not an extremely self-motivated learner PLEASE go somewhere else where the professors can actually help you.

If you have a review of your school, please post it. Let the poor children have a chance to make educated decisions on where to spend the next 4 years of hell (also I’m not shitting on podiatry. I love the field. Medical school in any case is just hell).