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Originally Posted by IMG X-Files
That is a false statement, podiatrists in the US obtain very similar training in basic sciences as MDs, it is in the clinical years 3rd and 4th that the focus is mainly towards the knee down.....
http://www.aacpm.org/
Same applies to DDS, DCs, and DOs.......I reviewed numerous school's catalogs, and there is a tremendus overlap in education specifically in the basic sciences.....Anatomy is Anatomy.....it does not change if you attend a DPM school or a Medical school......
Many Podiatry school's faculty members in basic sciences are PhDs, MDs or DPMs..... |
course catalogs are one thing, course content aree another. ask any DC pod, dentist, nurse, emt that has gone to med school, iv'e had several in my class and all agree that some courses were similar..meaning anatomy some phys, micro, and maybe path but the depth was far greater in med school because that is our focus.
i doubt course catalogs can give an understanding of the course content even with the paragraph long description. if chiro dds, and pod school were so similar then those students would breeze through basic sciences and that is just not the case...most had just as difficult time with the courses and received similar grades.
you can't compare the professions and write them off as being the same, they all focus on different aspects and touch only lightly on the other fields...
i.e. i learned foot ankle mouth anatomy, tooth embryology, and the related pathology very superficially, because that is not the focus of my future practice any more than a dentist needs to learn how to grade a liver lac, or how the status epelipticus pathway.