become a professor

[gnomeski]

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I am currently pre-med. I obviously want to be a doctor, but I also see myself wanting to teach. I was wondering if an MD is all you need to be a professor at a medical school. That's what I think the case is... but do you need a phd as well?

Just not sure how people go about getting there if they know in advance they would like to teach in addition.

Thanks

 

[witness23]

you can teach with a MD or a PhD in med school.

however, to become a appointed faculty professor, you will have to make it rain and it is not easy

 

[GeraldMonroe]

I was wondering if an MD is all you need to be a professor at a medical school.

An M.D. is plenty. At my school, the M.D. lecturers seem to have higher priority and they are more 'special events' than regular lectures. I think medical schools have trouble recruiting full time M.D.s, because they don't pay as much.

The M.D./PhD is for becoming a high powered researcher in charge of a department who occasionally lectures but mostly spends time in the lab or the clinic.

OK : yes, for tenure, it's probably harder, but it's really hard to get tenure anywhere these days, no matter what degrees you have.