Nowadays Podiatry is practiced in many different countries. We can find at least one podiatry school in every country around the world this time. Podiatry schools offer a number of different training courses to be able to get license and to practice podiatry. The nature, content and duration of podiatry courses may varies from country to country. Usually the length of the course may depend on the scope of practice in that particular country. USA has the greatest scope of practice and has the longest course of training where in some of the European countries has a much more limited scope of practice, so have a much reduced length of training course to get licensed. Podiatry schools can be in universities or stand alone institutions.