Medicine courses
Podiatry is a health career you enter through a bachelor degree: you study the foot, ankle and lower limb, then treat patients under supervision in clinics. Here's what the course involves and what the job is like.
- Quickest way to start
- 4 years
- Bachelor degree, typical full time length
- What the jobs pay
- $70,200
- median pay across 1 job, some estimated
- Demand
- In shortage
- on the national shortage list
Which course do you need?
It depends on the job you want.
Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine
Become a podiatrist
Assess and treat foot, ankle and lower limb problems, from sports injuries to the complications of diabetes, and help people keep moving.
JobPodiatrist
Median pay$70,200 (estimate)
- How long it takes
- 4 years full time
- How you'll study
- Online or on campus
Jobs you can do with this study
Pay is the median for everyone in the job, not a starting salary.
“In demand” means the job is on the national skills shortage list. Pay marked as an estimate is our own analysis, not a published figure. Check the course and provider are approved for the work you want, as rules differ by state.
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