New Podiatry School in Ireland

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Irish Health.com are reporting:
New podiatry school

Link to National University of Ireland, Galway.

 

...and there's more.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0725/breaking56.htm

toeslayer

 

As one of the many individuals who came to the UK to train and never returned to Ireland can I say that a training facility in Ireland is a most welcome initiative and long overdue.

What a pity that this article still hasn't got to grips with the difference between Chiropodists and Chiropractors. I quote:
- "Podiatrists or chiropractors diagnose and treat foot disorders like bunions, corns and ingrown toenails." - and "A 2005 report by the FAS Skills and Labour Market Research Unit identified a long term shortage of chiropractors and recommended that a BSc in Podiatry be established within the State."

What a pity that the opportunity to promote the profession in such a high profile paper as the Irish Times has been lost. It is to be hoped that the powers that be demand a retraction of this statement and public clarification of the difference between Chiropractors and Chiropodists.

Anne

 

Great news about the school.

I would love to see the syllabus when its finished.

The Irish Times are as accurate as ever and Im afraid that you have no chance whatsoever of them correcting the article. They're not big fans of pointing out their mistakes in public unless forced to by the courts

 

More from the Irish Medical Times:

 

It certainly is.

 

They advertising for a Professor/Senior Lecturer:

Salary (Professor): €110,121 x 7 = €140,387 p.a.
Salary (Senior Lecturer): €68,288 x 7 = €96,771 p.a.

Closing date: 16th November 2007

Further information on the above post is available from the Human Resources website:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/vacancies

 

netizens

Advice on podiatry as an option
http://www.independent.ie/education...ng-to-college-course-in-podiatry-1231934.html

toeslayer

 

New head appointed in Ireland

netizens

NUI Galway have appointed Dr Caroline McIntosh as head of podiatry. Dr McIntosh joins NUI Galway from the Division of Podiatry at the University of Huddersfield in the UK.

toeslayer

 

I am almost sure there is also now a course running at Cork University- and had it's first intake of students 2007/2008- I think it may also be at degree level... I may be wrong & in fact the faeires made it up & came and told me while i slept ;>... any clarification there anyone?

 

Re: New head appointed in Ireland

Press Release:
NUI Galway Appoints Head of Podiatry as Students Accept Places on New Course

 

Many congratulations to the R-o-I and Caroline McIntosh. From the little I know, the school is going to be a great success and we'll see students from the U.K. training there as well as 'locals'. :drinks (Black, not amber)

Just one point Admin., some of my friends in the Republic (and that's not a joke, I hope to have more soon, despite my humour!) will look askance at this subject posted under the 'U.K.' heading!

Bill Liggins

 

If i was to complete the 4 year Podiatry course in Galway or Glasgow or wherever, what would be the average starting salary that i could expect in a hospital? ..... I don't need the exact figure or anything - just in the region of?

 

'The setting up of the school is intended to meet the deficit in podiatry training and a shortage of podiatrists in Ireland.'

Unless we tighten up on border control here in the UK I`m inclined to think the shortage will continue !

 

well?

 

Is the course still running?

 

Yes it is, some unsettling reports from students

 

How so? Any grads yet?

 

where will all the new graduates get jobs. dont see many pod jobs on offer in the republic ime shure if they had a job glut all the unemployed grads from uk would be on the holyhead to dublin ferry

 

I wondered myself...

 

With the economy still going downhill every professional ie doctors, dentists, podiatrist's,physiotherapists are all feeling the pinch. Pods here are having to compete with FHPs in a shrinking private market. Pods are registered with HPC and adhere to rules but HPC will not deal with problems here, they don't want to get mixed up in politics! Ireland does not have any legislation covering "shuropody". Anyone can use the title and set up without training. As regards health service work, there is none in the south region. Its a who do you know and if you are not a member of the society you will not get any businness especially now as a result of the internal changes in the Institute. Very few wiant to have dealings with the acting representatives due to past misdemeanors, which were reported to HPC and dept of health here but all ignored.
I know of a nursing home within the south where the NY has a set of instruments and have a Rota of staff who do a." toenail trim day".

I feel sorry for the New grads from NUI Galway as they will need to go abroad to get experience cause they wont get it here!

I have over 25 years experience , in NHS, private practice in London, and mixed pp and health service work in Ireland but if I was at the start of my career I would get my degree and go to Oz. Instead I have retrained .

 

Oh Corndolly, I echo your views.....Unfortunately, it is the case all over the UK. Our training was so good at uni and we had such fantastic lecturers, etc. Our entire degree was based on a 1 day excrutiating tough clinical exam. If you failed that exam, you were not entitled to a BSc Podiatry degree, and therefore not allowed to go onto the HCPC register. You could resit the exam and hopefully pass but unfortuately there would always be a few stragglers who could not afford to resit the exam (funding themselves whilst they gained extra clinical experience) or gave up thinking they were no good. So as you can imagine the sacrifices made by the Podiatry students was massive. In my opinion it is very degrading to the BSc Podiatry degree holders, having folk allowed to practice willy-nilly as foot health practitioners.

I do feel very sorry for the Podiatry students, and do believe that the univerisities Podiatry Depts, should close its doors to new students for at least 5 years. Just to save Podiatry students the anguish of training and not been able to get a NHS Podiatry job or struggle against the massive influx of foot health practitioners.

I know our voices are lost on the wind......and unfortunately it appears our profession as a whole and The Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists have lost their rudder....and we getting closer to the rocks each and everyday!!!!

I am glad I did my Podiatry training but due to the financial climate, and the fact that there is absolutely no hope for the future of our profession, I am looking to retrain as a medic. There are always a need for Doctors in the world.....

 

I am in the same position and couldn't agree with you more. Watching my peers and myself slugging it out for so long and being assessed in one day, and never feeling appreciated, to only then go into the big bad world and not actually have a job, after being promised jobs from day one - in hospitals. Its a sorry state, which has caused me much regret.

 

eh? Assessed in one day? Did you not do a three year degree which incorporated many modules, each of which had to be passed each year through a variety of examination techniques? I hope you and your peers did slug it out (by that I am presuming you mean you worked/studied hard?), as we all did, as you would expect all AHP's to do.