Miami Shores, FL
Podiatry Schools | Public For-Profit
Overall, students rated the program a 2 out of 10 for satisfaction. The student body is described as moderately cooperative. The environment is considered supportive for underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ+ students, married students, students with disabilities, non-traditional students. Graduates feel underprepared for board exams. Faculty members are seen as less approachable.
🎓 The Basics ▼
Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?
What was the zip code of your residence in high school?
| Response Avg | # Responders |
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| 47,818.17 | 13 |
What do you like most?
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I love my classmates and how involved we are in extracurricular activities and events that the program hosts
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The location is not terrible.
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My classmates, the location, and some of the faculty.
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Nada
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The location and the research
What do you like least?
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Literally everything else. The administration and faculty overall are the most unqualified and unprofessional group of people I have ever met. The clinical director is the most disrespectful person I have ever met. The preclinical sciences professors are extremely unfit to teach our courses ESPECIALLY the current Intro to Neuro professor and the Histology and Pathology professor. They are the worst professors I have ever “learned” from. Their exams are not reflective of how the APMLE exam is. Both professors read off their PowerPoints but if you ask them a question, they won’t know how to answer it. For a program that’s so established, it’s very disappointing that they are being highly cheap on who they hired as their professors.
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The administration is super disorganized and does not seem to have the back of the students. Does not articulate any information and does shady stuff that harms the students. Teachers also do NOT teach, so pay all your money to eventually end up learning from youtube
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The new clinical director. She is an absolute nightmare on a power trip, might as well call her the "New Acting Dean" cause she does whatever she wants without consequence (without the student's best interest in mind btw) and she's never wrong.... ever. Have you ever been driving on the freeway behind a slow driver and they wave for you to pass them, but just as you go to do so they speed up and cut you off?? Well that's exactly how this past year has been with her, she tells us one thing and then goes back on her word. It's been so frustrating having to deal with this person as students because we feel like we don't have the support from the actual dean. Whenever we meet with the dean one-on-one to discuss whatever current problem she is making for us it goes something like this: Me: So the clinical director is going back on her word about... and is now making this a requirement. I've told her my situation but she doesn't seem to care at all. Dean: Have you tried talking to her? Me: -__- "What would you say..... ya do here??" The dean only seems to care about the numbers we put up, like boards and residency placement. Class morale is something he's probably never even thought of before.
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Clinic coordinator, majority of administrative faculty has heads up assess. Don't care about what's best for students, dont listen to what student body says despite the 35k tuition we pay
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Undoubtedly, the administration. The new clinical education director is horrendous. She will make your life as a student a living hell.
🧾 The Details ▼
Does the student body seem cooperative or competitive?
Does the environment seem supportive for underrepresented minorities?
Does the environment seem supportive for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual students?
Does the environment seem supportive for married students?
Does the environment seem supportive for students with disabilities?
Does the environment seem supportive for older/non-traditional students?
Do you/did you feel well prepared for your board exams?
How approachable are faculty members?
What are the facilities and clinics like (old/new, well maintained, etc.)?
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The podiatry building is extremely gross and only has two bathrooms for each gender.
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They are old and not well maintained at all. Classroom ceilings are falling apart and the buildings don't look like they have been updated since they were built.
How do students from this program do after graduation - are they adequately prepared for practice?
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Properly
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No.
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Students look like idiots going out into externships
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This year they had 100% residency placement
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Very well.
What are rotations like?
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A lot of rotations have non- podiatry doctors that don’t teach you anything. They look down upon podiatry students.
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if you have connections within the school, you will get the rotations you want...if you don't come from connections you get the rat droppings that are left.
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0
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5
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1
How do students from this program do in the Match?
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They mostly match
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if you have connections within the school, you will get the match you want...if you don't come from connections you get the rat droppings that are left.
Any other information you want to share?
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Stay AWAY from this institution. Only three pre-clinical sciences professors will prepare you well for the APMLE Part 1. As for the clinical professors, they are the most vindictive group of professors I have ever met. While attendance is not mandatory for their course, they will punish students as a whole if they do not attend IN PERSON. I specify IN-PERSON because there are students who do attend, but they attend virtually. They have gone out of their ways to punish everyone because of that. I will stay away from this school.
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The faculty and professors have very old methodologies and traditional viewpoints/teaching styles. They are unadopted to today's more modern perspectives/teachings. Hence forth, the faculty and professors also carry around HUGE egos and are unable to receive constructive feed back...some even whining about it like toddlers. Thus it is a very toxic learning environment where you either adapt to their view points or perish...it is not a cohesive, open, nor supportive learning environment
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Pre-pod students, pick a diff school
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When acute and extreme changes are deemed necessary, a gradual transition plan should be adopted, naturally. The clinical director has been trying from day 1 to make too many changes, too quickly. The administration was forced to step in and tone her down. There is clear miscommunication within the administration itself which undermines the entire foundation of the school. The dean of our school is always very respectful, and has our best interest at heart. That being said, he is also a pushover. If there is consistently a problem throughout all years with specific policies, shouldn't said policies be addressed? It is easier to avoid stepping on toes, but this comes with a dire cost--students well-being. Our clinical education director is extremely rude, and does not understand how to communicate properly. I No school is perfect, but Barry has taken multiple steps backwards with the addition clinical education director to the faculty.
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I’ve always been the kind of person who gives people the benefit of the doubt and tries to see the positive in every situation. However, as a third year getting ready for my externships. I am ready to leave this place and I never want to come back.My only hope that comes from someone reading this is that they will not make the same mistakes I did by coming here. I only wish someone had told me differently and advised me to go to a different school. . By any means i’m not a person that sits here in resentment, my class mates are amazing and i’m super glad I met them, but what we’ve been through is not okay. This mess is a perfect storm caused by three people who have led us to these events, 1) clinical instructor , 2) our dean and 3) physiology professor/academic dean To avoid defamation I ask that you google these names. We recently got a new clinical instructor this year, we were called the transitional class because of this. Literally a month before our externship selection we were told that we would now have to do a home month here in Miami, this was not new but in the past if someone wanted to stay here you could switch with your classmate and go elsewhere. This now meant that people who did not want to stay here now had to squeeze a month in and would leave them with one less externship. Thats not a bad deal you say, but then she insisted she needed three per month and that she would be picking our clinical site. Meaning if you were all the way out in seattle, you would have to come back to miami if there was a month unaccounted for. She also picked our clinical site. Which is another disadvantage because that meant if you were interested in a Barry clinical for externship your home month would count as an externship but she made sure of this as well. We were also told that when Barry University is off, clinic would be off as well, however a two days before thanksgiving rolled around, another email rolled around saying we would be expected to be in clinic. We felt this was calculated as we had a class meeting with her the Monday before and there was no mention of it. She also required 5 SOAP NOTES a day that had to be done in 24 hours, keep in mind we are taking 6 classes,6! That amounts to 15 a week and she would not approve them for whatever reason so then you had to go back in there and change the stupid log. It was time consuming and counterproductive. During this time our dean was emailed multiple times and many of my classmates arranged meetings with him to voice our concern. Nothing was done. During this time we had a few people retaking boards and some failed the second time. He sent us an insensitive email telling us our board score rate an made a point of saying that it was lower than the years before. Not taking into account we had lost a couple of people from our class who we considered our friends. It seemed at this point that he did not care about the welfare of the students but rather our board rates. He met with us in a class meeting in December, in December! Five months after the first sign of trouble, and five months after we had sent emails and reached out to him about an increasingly intolerable situation. Our meeting went well, and we were hopeful. However when we returned in January not much had changed, we now were still required 5 logs a day but now instead of being due in 24 hours they were now due before five on Saturday. We were told at the beginning of class meeting by our clinical instructor that we did not have to do logs during externship, however in our last class meeting we were told we would now have to do one a day for the whole month which would account to 20 a month. NONE of the other podiatry schools are require do logs during externships! We emailed both the dean and clinical instructor and didn't hear back for them and its literally been a week! Now to our last person who has created a perfect storm, this last example will show you how dysfunctional the administration is, if the above hasn't already convinced you. We get a final exam schedule at the beginning of every semester, not only that we get a syllabus from the professor. Our academic dean who is also the physiology teacher, tried to tell us our surgery final was on a Monday when we had two other finals, even though we had the schedule he gave us and the syllabus form the professor. He literally let this go on a week before finals for two days and kept saying that because his schedule says Monday (this phantom schedule that nobody saw) that we have to take our final on Monday. In the end the professors stepped in and said it was Tuesday. Its one of many examples of incompetence at this school, unqualified people in positions they should be in, and a dean who doesn't care about the welfare of the student but only about numbers. DO NOT GO HERE. CHOOSE DIFFERENTLY YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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