Doctorate Degree in Podiatric Medicine Snapshot
Develop the clinical, communication and interprofessional teamwork skills and experience you’ll need to be a successful
podiatric physician through the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree program at Des Moines University.
Good things to know about a Doctorate Degree in Podiatric Medicine:
- Throughout the four-year graduate program, you will specialize in the lower extremities and become a podiatric doctor. But, you will also be knowledgeable in the vascular, surgical, therapeutic, dermatological and other fields of medicine, too. This range of expertise will help you better assess and treat patients in a clinic or hospital setting.
- Those with a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degrees go onto open private practices, practiced in hospitals or clinics, and worked in an academic setting.
- You will also benefit from practice with real-life and realistic scenarios you may encounter in your career:
- Prepare to work alongside others on a health care team in collaborative learning environments such as the classroom and labs.
- Dissect and analyze cadavers; train in suturing, surgical instrumentation, dissection, intravenous insertions and other procedures; practice diagnostic skills and patient care and more.
- Practice patient care in the DMU Foot and Ankle Clinic in your third year in conjunction with clinical rotations in internal medicine, as well as an emergency medicine stimulation rotation, vascular surgery, orthopedics and wound management.
- In your fourth year, you will participate in medical specialty clinical rotations as well as clerkship rotations that lead to residency opportunities.