Podiatrists are best known for treating problems that people commonly experience with their feet, but they are increasingly playing an important role in addressing chronic conditions, such as diabetes. As a podiatrist, your patients can range from children to active sportspeople to the elderly. Graduates from this program will be equipped with extensive clinical practice experience and accredited by Australia and New Zealand Podiatry Accreditation Council. Western Sydney University offers podiatry as a Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine degree, which delivers career-ready graduates and is delivered jointly by Western Sydney University (WSU) and the University of Newcastle (UON).

 

With around 1,000 hours of clinical education provided at our clinical training facility and at external placement sites, this course includes week-long placements from your second year of study, and up to 16 weeks in your fourth year. This experience focuses on providing extensive clinical practice prior to graduation. As a fourth year student, you will complete a professional practice program that explores aspects of clinical practice for a professional career, focusing on professional, technical, industrial and topical legal issues of complex cases. All clinical placements will occur during normal work hours of the various clinical facilities. If you enrol in the four-year Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine but decide to leave at the end of the third year, assuming you have successfully completed all of the first three years, you may be eligible to be awarded a Bachelor of Health Science if you have met all the requirements