Paul Bours- orthopaedic surgery:

Podiatric surgeons are podiatrists who have post graduate training in surgery to a level needed to obtain Commonwealth accredited specialist registration. This is a different pathway from an orthopaedic surgeon who obtains specialist registration, then works toward sub-specialisation in foot and ankle. Arguably, the time and experience spent in training looking at foot and ankle problems by an orthopaedist will be less than that of a podiatric surgeon. On the other side of the argument Podiatric Surgeons don’t have experience in delivering babies or performing hip replacements, but nor do they need to!