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Originally Posted by brightness
See, if PsyDs also publish, its a little difficult to figure out what the real difference is between PhD trained psychologists and PsyD trained psychologists. Is it like MDs and DOs- differences in education but very little difference in real world practice?
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Somewhat OT, but thought I'd respond.
I'm not quite on board with the MD DO analogy because there are greater differences in HOW people practice and likely career choices. If a PsyD wants to go into academia, its probably a bit unusual, but what people are saying is that a school isn't going to set lower bars for its PsyD hires as far as publications go. So it may be harder to get hired as a researcher if you have a PsyD, you'll likely have to learn a lot more on your own since its doubtful they'd have the same training in research as a PhD, but once you're there you have the same bar to pass as everyone else.
That being said, I actually disagree that they publish equal amounts. A PsyD at a research school would certainly be expected to publish the same amount, but you see a disproportionate number of PsyDs teaching in places like Argosy, etc. whereas they are EXTREMELY rare at large research universities. So at a given school, a PsyD likely publishes as much as the PhDs, across all PsyDs in faculty positions I think its VERY likely they publish less on average given they are more highly concentrated in schools with lower research productivity.
That clarify it at all?