Program Overview

Degree in Podiatry

Introduction

The Degree in Podiatry is a four-year undergraduate program that aims to produce professionals with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to prevent, diagnose, and treat foot-related conditions.

Program Details

• Knowledge branch: Health Sciences
• Field of study: Physiotherapy, podiatry, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, optics and optometry, and speech therapy
• Centre: Facultat d'Infermeria i Podologia
• Degree code: 1208
• Credits: 240
  • Basic training: 60
  • Compulsory: 129
  • Elective: 9
  • Work Placement/Internship: 36
  • Final Project: 6
• Years: 4
• Places available: 60
• Classes: Face to face
• Language teaching: Spanish, Valencian
• First enrolment credit fee: 18.0
• First enrolment credit fee for non-EU and non-communicating students from abroad: 36.0
• Degree Academic Committee President (CAT): Emmanuel M. Navarro Flores
• Degree Coordinator: Montserrat Alcahuz Gri鼁n
• Work Placement/Internship Coordinator: Maria Benimeli Fenollar
• International Coordinator: Carmen Garc燰 Gom嫫iz

Career Opportunities

The Degree in Podiatry offers the following career opportunities:

• Care tasks in podiatry clinics, polyclinics, primary care centres, hospitals, or sports centres
• Teaching and research work in universities, scientific societies, foundations, and companies specialising in podiatry

Regulated Professions

The degree certificate qualifies graduates to practise as podiatrists according to Spanish and European laws.

Academic, Scientific, or Professional Interest

The aim of the Degree in Podiatry is to produce professionals with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to prevent, diagnose, and treat foot-related conditions. Thanks to their general knowledge of the human body and specialised training in feet, podiatrists can work alongside other specialists to provide patients with a specific and effective diagnosis and treatment.

Worth Noting

To study Podiatry, it is advisable that students have some prior knowledge of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. During the third and fourth academic years, students undertake internships in order to consolidate their theoretical knowledge and gain practical experience in their future profession. Internships are part of the Integrated Clinical Practicum module. The University of Valencia has its own podiatry clinic where students are trained to attend to external patients by performing clinical care tasks in the different areas covered during their studies, including:

• Podiatric surgery
• Orthopodiatry
• Orthotics
• Physical podiatry
• Biomechanics
• Chiropody
• Radiodiagnosis

Curriculum

There are no optional subjects in this degree's curriculum. The program includes a combination of theoretical and practical courses, as well as internships and a final project, to provide students with a comprehensive education in podiatry.