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Pre-Podiatry
DPM • Prepare for podiatric medicine. Often overlooked, podiatry offers a surgical specialty with strong job security.
~3.4 avg
AACPM 2024
Avg Applicant GPA
100+ podiatry obs hrs
Typical Experience
11 courses
Required Courses
5 areas
Key Experiences
Required Courses
Click any course to see who teaches itThese courses are required by most DPM programs.
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Not required but strengthen your application significantly.
Key Experiences Needed
- →Podiatry office shadowing (100–200 hrs with a DPM)
- →Clinical or hospital volunteering (100+ hrs)
- →MCAT prep
- →Research (increasingly valued as field grows more competitive)
- →Surgery or clinical procedure observation
💡 UT Austin Advantage
Podiatry is one of the most underrepresented pre-health tracks, which means less competition for shadowing placements. Austin has several podiatric surgery practices that welcome observers.
📍 Austin Resources
- • Austin podiatry offices (cold-call for shadowing)
- • Dell Seton Medical Center (volunteering)
- • Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-health honor society