"MDA" goes mainstream?

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Dumbest thing I have ever heard - and that's ignoring the fact that there is no such degree as an "MDA." It's a totally meaningless term. But more telling is that no other group of MDs allow themselves to be subjugated this way. I know there are more important issues facing the profession, but this one seems so simple to avoid.

Why hasn't the trend been to go with the board certification initials (a la surgeons - MD, FACS. or internal medicine docs - MD, FACP)? Shouldn't it be MD, DABA? Or is it FABA? See, I don't even know because you never see it. I don't want to look like the nurses who add 25 initials after their names, but I'd rather take those four over the extra A that doesn't mean anything.

-Gimlet, MD LMFAO
 
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Gimlet said:
Why hasn't the trend been to go with the board certification initials (a la surgeons - MD, F.A.C.S. or internal medicine docs - MD, F.A.C.P.)? Shouldn't it be MD, D.A.B.A.? Or is it FABA? See, I don't even know because you never see it.
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It is DABA. There are a handful of people out there who use it in their title, but not too many.
 
There used to be I think american college of anesthesiologists and if you were a fellow you would be FACAN or something like that. SOme of the older guys are fellow of this group I dont know what happened to it.
 
Who gets to actually make these types of decisions? The doctors themselves? Hospital administration? I don't see why if anesthesiologists don't want to be called MDAs that they have to put up with it. Cardiologists aren't MDCs, pulmonologists aren't MDPs, why are anesthesiologists MDAs? I thought it was whatever your degree was, and last I checked, it's an MD. So where is this coming from?
 
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Who gets to actually make these types of decisions? The doctors themselves? Hospital administration? I don't see why if anesthesiologists don't want to be called MDAs that they have to put up with it. Cardiologists aren't MDCs, pulmonologists aren't MDPs, why are anesthesiologists MDAs? I thought it was whatever your degree was, and last I checked, it's an MD. So where is this coming from?
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All part of the AANA plan to make every Anesthesia Provider (except AA) equals. CRNA=MDA That is why CRNAs call us MDAs. We are glorified CRNAs according to the AANA.

This is a losing/lost battle. Ex-Mil MD and I know you will called that in PP. Better get used to it.
 
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what's an "mda"?

What you will be called when you finish your residency and become board certified.
 
BLADEMDA said:
All part of the AANA plan to make every Anesthesia Provider (except AA) equals. CRNA=MDA That is why CRNAs call us MDAs. We are glorified CRNAs according to the AANA.

This is a losing/lost battle. Ex-Mil MD and I know you will called that in PP. Better get used to it.
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My point is, what authority does the AANA have over MDs? You make it sound like anesthesiologists report to the AANA. What makes it so hard to say, "My degree doesn't say MDA, it says MD"?
 
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This is a losing/lost battle. Ex-Mil MD and I know you will called that in PP. Better get used to it.
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Naw... no one's yet called me an "MDA", but I and my colleagues are frequently referred to as "Ologists".

Same game, similar distinction, different moniker.

-copro
 
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