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I gotta say that I've read and heard some very disturbing things from both current pods and people familiar with the field.
I was speaking to my neighbor who is a dermatologist a few days ago - his son went to pod school and then a 3 year residency at Kaiser. He was offered several jobs out of school and everyone of them turned out to be garbage.
Red tape at the hospitals didnt allow him to do rear foot work since there was a MD who specialized in it. His admitting privelages were very limited at another hospital.
So I started a little more research and my general concerns are as such -
1) Pods have no universal scope of practice;
2) very difficult times getting on insurance panels;
3) only are allowed to do certain procedures in certain hospitals;
4) have no govt loan forgivness (as MD/DO/DDS do);
5) schools take anyone with a pulse and can sign the loan docs;
6) have a very very high loan default rate;
7) are second to MD and DOs;
8) residency training although is getting better has no standardization and can be very subpar;
9) no board certification without a 36 mo. residency;
10) very little referrals and surgical calls from MD and DO;
11) schools have approx. 700 seats to fill yet they can only fill 50%;
12) reimbursements are at an all time low for podiatry procedures. In fact, some insurance companies wont even cover podiatric care; and
13) nurses, PTs, chiropractors, and other health care professionals are doing orthotics and wound care and other basic podiatry procedures.
This is a list of just a few of the crappy comments I found by talking to my neighbors son and reading some literature.
Are all of these thoughts unsupported because it seems like everyone here is gung-ho! for podiatry school.
Your thoughts?
I was speaking to my neighbor who is a dermatologist a few days ago - his son went to pod school and then a 3 year residency at Kaiser. He was offered several jobs out of school and everyone of them turned out to be garbage.
Red tape at the hospitals didnt allow him to do rear foot work since there was a MD who specialized in it. His admitting privelages were very limited at another hospital.
So I started a little more research and my general concerns are as such -
1) Pods have no universal scope of practice;
2) very difficult times getting on insurance panels;
3) only are allowed to do certain procedures in certain hospitals;
4) have no govt loan forgivness (as MD/DO/DDS do);
5) schools take anyone with a pulse and can sign the loan docs;
6) have a very very high loan default rate;
7) are second to MD and DOs;
8) residency training although is getting better has no standardization and can be very subpar;
9) no board certification without a 36 mo. residency;
10) very little referrals and surgical calls from MD and DO;
11) schools have approx. 700 seats to fill yet they can only fill 50%;
12) reimbursements are at an all time low for podiatry procedures. In fact, some insurance companies wont even cover podiatric care; and
13) nurses, PTs, chiropractors, and other health care professionals are doing orthotics and wound care and other basic podiatry procedures.
This is a list of just a few of the crappy comments I found by talking to my neighbors son and reading some literature.
Are all of these thoughts unsupported because it seems like everyone here is gung-ho! for podiatry school.
Your thoughts?