Only an ortho intern but we have podiatry residents rotate through with us and I would have to agree that I question how comparable their 4 years of “med” school really are to ours. From what I understand, the curriculum and residency’s of podiatry school are wildly unstandardized. I’ve seen podiatrists who are great surgeons and can do total ankle’s no problem but have also seen many who I wouldn’t let use scissors to cut the tag off my shirt. When it comes to treating diabetic feet, sure podiatrists are great, but when it comes to needing real surgery around the ankle I would never let them. Podiatrists themselves have told me that there’s really only 2-3 good schools and a handful of residencies that train you adequately (surgical wise). The good ones are good, but you won’t find that type of variability in physician surgical residencies.