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After graduating from a four year undergraduate Urgent Fungus Destroyer Review university, podiatrists go to school just as long as a medical doctor MD, or doctor of osteopathy DO. In fact, much of the first two years of podiatry school academic study are identical to those degrees. The difference begins in the third year, where podiatry students begin to develop experience in foot and ankle medicine. 

While podiatry students serve in many of the same hospital departments learning general medicine during the third and fourth year as MD and DO students, more of that time is spent in the field where they have already decided on specializing, as opposed to MD and DO students who are undecided on a specialty. 

Upon graduating, new podiatrists become hospital-based resident physicians for two to three years, learning advanced medical and surgical techniques, and usually are tasked with the same responsibilities as MD and DO interns and residents in those institutions. Only after that do podiatrists enter practice.

There was a time in the former half of the last century that podiatrists then known as chiropodists strictly treated nails, calluses, and simple foot pain. That time has long since passed. For the last forty years, podiatrists have treated every condition that could possibly affect the foot and ankle, from bunions and hammertoes, to serious infections and fractures, and even severe birth deformities. Podiatrists treat skin disorders, bone disorders, nerve disorders, injuries, and even have a role in circulation disorders. And yes, they even still treat toe nail disease and corns and calluses.

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