Diagnose and treat diseases and deformities of the human foot.
On-The-Job Responsibilities:
Statewide
Typical Degree: Doctoral or professional degree
Employed as of 2022: 63
2032 Projected Openings: 19
Entry Level Salary: $95,780
Median Salary: $185,990
Experienced Level Salary: N/A
Associated Local Workforce Area:
*values presented are at the Local Workforce Area level
Employed as of 2022:
2032 Projected Openings:
Entry Level Salary:
Median Salary:
Experienced Level Salary:
Medicine and Dentistry
Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
Customer and Personal Service
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
English Language
Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
Active Learning
Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Active Listening
Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Critical Thinking
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Deductive Reasoning
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning
The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Problem Sensitivity
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
This page includes information from the O*NET Career Exploration Tools by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license.
This tool was built using publicly available data from the Kentucky Center for Statistics and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.