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Originally Posted by R. A. Sosa, DDS,MS,PhD,MS
... I went to apply for a teaching position at a Medical School Department of Pediatrics. I lost out, because the other candidate had a Medical degree(MD). Eventhough, I had 100x more experience and knowledge.
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It's impossible for any of us to judge fairly whether or not you've been hard done by in this instance: we know so little detail of the circumstances.
Of course our profession and academe often behave in self-serving and protectionist ways (like any professional group or trade union for that matter). Custom and practice and simple academic inertia can sometimes disadvantage the perfect candidate. So
if the only reason you lost out was the lack of a diploma
and not the specific detailed clinical knowledge, experience and legal/ethical rights and responsibilities that go with it - then I'm sure most here would deplore that.
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I went to apply to Medical School within Continental United States. The Tuition was ridiculous and they would not recognize non of my other Doctoral classes which I obtained in US schools (Like if I were a Freshman again). I am looking for a University which could provide me my MD degree, taking into consideration all of my present degrees and past experience. I do not seek Licensure with my Medical Degree, just by having an MD helps me in career advancement.
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Personally, like some previous posters, I'm not in favour of simply giving people a bye because some course done in the past
appears to be the same or similar to part of an MD course. There is usually quite a lot of additional material And, as
AUCMD2006 said earlier it also "dilutes the value" and trust in the MD degree.
I can see one way round the problem for those, like yourself, who feel aggrieved by what may seem over-scrupulous regulations. You could be allowed to accelerate your MD courses not by exemptions, but by taking the exams in those subjects at an early stage without following the whole course. Unfortunately I haven't, so far, heard of anyone offering to do this: people seem to be demanding exemption as of right.
By the way, unlike some on VMD who display a compulsively antediluvian attitude, I have no problem with the principle of distance learning: I would like to see well-run, accredited and quality assured courses with up to 90% of the basic sciences following this method.
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....I went to London and received a Doctor of Science in Medicine (D.Sc. Med), which is not accepted in the US.....
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Which chartered U.K. university awarded your D.Sc.?
It was this bit of your post which took me aback (and others no doubt). It did rather sound as if you had gone on a shopping trip, little further than Heathrow Airport, to one of our all-too-common and thriving diploma mills. In which case surely you can't have been surprised that it was "not accepted". If I've misunderstood that, and it was a legitimate university you must still have known (or could easily have found out) that it was not going to be an acceptable alternative to an MD.
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It is not the school , but the student which makes a good Physician.
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I am amazed at how often this mantra is repeated on ValueMD - usually by those a lot less experienced, qualified and senior than yourself. If people seriously believe that the school has no value in the educational process that "makes a good physician" (which is what the statement implies), then I am deeply saddened that so many appear not to have had any previous encounters with inspiring teachers. No, a good teacher cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear: but she can do all sorts of wonderful things, like bring out potential that would otherwise have lain dormant, improve the average student, and render the good student outstanding to suggest but a few.
However, I know that in truth most people say this kind of thing here more out of forlorn hope and self-justification than any real expectation.