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 Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:09 pm
[Shadow.Elven-mage] And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Not an undergraduate medicine degree, though.
What was your undergraduate degree?|--- <|Slytherin Pride! Well, it was a declared pre-med track. In the US, pretty much all medical careers are pushing towards doctorates (even PT/OT programs are starting to become doctoral programs). Thus, there isn't a medicine degree. The degree itself was a Bachelor's of Science in Biomathematics and Philosophy.
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:46 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|So the degree that qualifies you to practice as a doctor is a PhD in...medicine? If I have that right, that is both cool and odd.
My degree is called Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery. It's a six-year undergraduate degree. If I wanted, I could have done a Bachelor's in Science or Biomedical Science and then done a graduate MBBS, which is a four year degree, but given that Biomed is three years, it would have taken me seven years all together.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:28 pm
The degree is either MD (medical doctor) or DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). I am working towards the latter.
Generally, there is two years of academic education followed by two years of clinical education (a.k.a. "hands on" in a hospital). It's not quite the same as a PHD because medicine isn't really its own subject in the US.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:00 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Oh! So you don't have medical degrees in the same way that we do. What's osteopathic medicine, by the way?
We have three years of pre-clinical and three years of clinical in this particular degree, but the latter three just mean that you have more placements than in pre-clinical. And then there's internship, but that's not actually part of the degree.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:46 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:05 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Thanks! I must say, I think our system is far less complicated, but after reading that article, I understand (kind of) how yours works.
Also, I read the article about osteopathic medicine. It's like normal medicine but focusing more on the musculo-skeletal system, yes? I'm doing musculo-skeletal as one of my subjects at the moment, and it's kind of cool (better than gastrointestinal and reproductive, at least). I actually thought I'd hate it before I started, but it's become one of my favourite subjects. (Given that my other three subjects this semester are gastro, genetics and Health in Practice, though, I suppose that's not saying much.)|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:31 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:25 am
Yeah, basically. In general, DOs are licensed for everything MDs do, plus also the neuromusculoskeletal system. In other words, after we're done the physical, we can crack your back. It's like a lollipop for adults.
"Aww, now, that prostate exam wasn't that bad, was it?" *CRACK*
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:03 pm
I choose not to care whether or not either Burger approves of any of my threads. I could hardly care less if he thinks it is good, bad, pointless, silly or otherwise. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:45 pm
I think that's a good attitude, Asha. ^_^ I support it!
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:26 am
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:36 pm
Mooby the Golden Sock Yeah, basically. In general, DOs are licensed for everything MDs do, plus also the neuromusculoskeletal system. In other words, after we're done the physical, we can crack your back. It's like a lollipop for adults. "Aww, now, that prostate exam wasn't that bad, was it?" *CRACK* And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|^.^ Now I kind of wish our uni offered osteopathic medicine as a degree.
Jacky: Mooby and I are comparing med school systems. I don't think it really makes sense to anyone else.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:47 pm
it kinda makes sense to me. I know a tiny bit about med school cause 3 friends are in med school and as an OT, I have to know a bit about interacting with doctors.
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:49 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Then I should probably amend my previous statement to: I don't think it really makes sense to anyone who isn't in the health profession.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:06 pm
[Shadow.Elven-mage] Mooby the Golden Sock Yeah, basically. In general, DOs are licensed for everything MDs do, plus also the neuromusculoskeletal system. In other words, after we're done the physical, we can crack your back. It's like a lollipop for adults. "Aww, now, that prostate exam wasn't that bad, was it?" *CRACK* And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|^.^ Now I kind of wish our uni offered osteopathic medicine as a degree.
Jacky: Mooby and I are comparing med school systems. I don't think it really makes sense to anyone else.|--- <|Slytherin Pride! Osteopathic medicine is a U.S. invention, and it's still struggling to expand outside the country's borders. A few DOs run around Canada, but for the most part they stay in the U.S. Not to mention that in Europe, osteopaths are generally not doctors. It makes expansion somewhat slow.
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