MD to PharmD

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Didn't see a thread for this so I thought I'd ask since I was wondering...there are a ton of PharmD to MD threads but not the other way round 🙂 Just as someone asked before in this thread, why would someone go from PharmD to MD, I was curious why would someone go the opposite way? I found two people who appeared to get their PharmD after their MD:

An anesthesiologist: http://anesthesiology.osu.edu/4494.cfm
A dermatologist: (PharmD 'fellowship'?): http://www.sutterhealth.org/provide...9496&isLevelOne=1&recId=ps98184sp981845168828

 

[VCU07]

Didn't see a thread for this so I thought I'd ask since I was wondering...there are a ton of PharmD to MD threads but not the other way round 🙂 Just as someone asked before in this thread, why would someone go from PharmD to MD, I was curious why would someone go the opposite way? I found two people who appeared to get their PharmD after their MD:

An anesthesiologist: http://anesthesiology.osu.edu/4494.cfm
A dermatologist: (PharmD 'fellowship'?): http://www.sutterhealth.org/provide...9496&isLevelOne=1&recId=ps98184sp981845168828

One guy was already a RPH. He got his MD after pharm. school then went back later on, much later on lol and did the extra work for the Pharm.D No point to becoming a Pharm.D after MD. There are people who switch from MD to Pharm.D. Otherwise, there is no point to it.

 

[Got Em]

Didn't see a thread for this so I thought I'd ask since I was wondering...there are a ton of PharmD to MD threads but not the other way round 🙂 Just as someone asked before in this thread, why would someone go from PharmD to MD, I was curious why would someone go the opposite way? I found two people who appeared to get their PharmD after their MD:

An anesthesiologist: http://anesthesiology.osu.edu/4494.cfm
A dermatologist: (PharmD 'fellowship'?): http://www.sutterhealth.org/provide...9496&isLevelOne=1&recId=ps98184sp981845168828

Why? Because they want to be a pharmacist. No seriously. Some physicians get tired of dealing with patients/insurance/nurses and think that being a pharmacist is so much easier. The grass is always greener on the other side right? This is actually pretty common thinking among older physicians, that a pharmacist doesn't really do anything other than know a little bit about drugs and count some pills...nothing really to deal with; or maybe it's the town I live in haha.

 

[kvl1027]

Didn't see a thread for this so I thought I'd ask since I was wondering...there are a ton of PharmD to MD threads but not the other way round 🙂 Just as someone asked before in this thread, why would someone go from PharmD to MD, I was curious why would someone go the opposite way? I found two people who appeared to get their PharmD after their MD:

An anesthesiologist: http://anesthesiology.osu.edu/4494.cfm
A dermatologist: (PharmD 'fellowship'?): http://www.sutterhealth.org/provide...9496&isLevelOne=1&recId=ps98184sp981845168828

You are not going to find many who take this route because it doesn't make a lot of sense. You may find some who decide to go back into pharmacy if they were once a pharmacist, because it is a nicer job for someone who is retired looking to make some extra cash, but most MD's who are retired wouldn't need extra cash.

I would think that it would be very hard for a young Dr to give up their autonomy to become an "employee". I know I would never make that jump, not to mention it would be very hard for soeone to dig out of the combined debt of Med School and Pharm School on a pharmacist salary. It just doesn't make a lot of practical sense. I think if there was an MD that was sick of dealign with the business end of running their own practice, they would just become a hospitalist somewhere. Working for the hospital they dont have to deal with insurance and while they will make less as an MD, they will still get paid a little better than a pharmacist.

 

[Farcus]

there is one in the class ahead of me, he was an internalist at colorado got his MD like in the late 1990s, practice a 10 years and is my school currently a P4. He is mad chill and I asked why he'd move he say because he wants to go into consulting physician/pharmacist, i didnt really understand what he meant but I just thought it was werid. He's in his early/mid 30s now I think. He's wife is also an internalist.

 

[Electrode]

there is one in the class ahead of me, he was an internalist at colorado got his MD like in the late 1990s, practice a 10 years and is my school currently a P4. He is mad chill and I asked why he'd move he say because he wants to go into consulting physician/pharmacist, i didnt really understand what he meant but I just thought it was werid. He's in his early/mid 30s now I think. He's wife is also an internalist.

This is besides the thread issue but I couldn't ignore the curiosity. For someone that got his MD in the late 1990's, practiced for 10 years, and is currently a P4; what are the chances that his current age really falls into the mid 30's, instead of a much older age? Unless he got his MD at age 20 or thereabout. Just curios

 

[xtsukiyox]

[...] He's wife is also an internalist.

So his wife is going to prescribe and he's going to fill? 😉

 

[Farcus]

i was guessing his age, since he never told me, but the situation is a fact.

 

[PharmGirl31]

I only know one PhD going for PharmD

 

[Electrode]

i was guessing his age, since he never told me, but the situation is a fact.

Pardon me, I can be careless with voicing out my curiosity sometimes.


The thread:

One guy was already a RPH. He got his MD after pharm. school then went back later on, much later on lol and did the extra work for the Pharm.D No point to becoming a Pharm.D after MD. There are people who switch from MD to Pharm.D. Otherwise, there is no point to it.

Perhaps, he has some side line (pharmacy-related) business going on that demands him to update/maintain a PharmD degree, regardless of his M.D. Or maybe, he simply wanted to have a furnished version of his degree "shelf." After all, it probably cost him a fraction of his previous year salary.

If you check his other bio infos, he seems more involved in his medical specialty than the 2010 PharmD ice breaker. Therefore, there is not enough info that suffiently indicates the anesthesiologist downgraded from M.D. to PharmD. There are a lot of other possible rational explanations behind it. (Suspension of medical license? Yes? No?)