Real MD degree?

[Musicandhorses]

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[CaptainWEMT]

I did a quick google search of that school and I found the following information on it:
Asian Degree Mills
From this article it sounds like they are a diploma mill and are not a real university.

 

[mvenus929]

FWIW, you can have a 'real' MD degree and not have a license to practice medicine, since they are two separate things.

 

[Lnsean]

Maybe send an anonymous email to HR?

 

[Musicandhorses]

Thanks for all your help everyone! I figured it was a diploma mill degree. I can’t call HR as it is a very small mom and pop clinic and there is no HR department otherwise I would have. I’m a DVM and we have the same thing: you can have a DVM without a license but since he was seeing patients in our state at one point I thought that would be required at least it would be for vet med. If he did have a license in my state it would be a real degree but if he didn’t that wouldn’t prove his degree was fake either.

I thank everyone for their replies! I erased the original post now to avoid backlash. I’m excited to start my new job. It’s at a large clinic with an HR department so they will vet people coming in. Thanks again!

 

[Stagg737]

Thanks for all your help everyone! I figured it was a diploma mill degree. I can’t call HR as it is a very small mom and pop clinic and there is no HR department otherwise I would have. I’m a DVM and we have the same thing: you can have a DVM without a license but since he was seeing patients in our state at one point I thought that would be required at least it would be for vet med. If he did have a license in my state it would be a real degree but if he didn’t that wouldn’t prove his degree was fake either.

I thank everyone for their replies! I erased the original post now to avoid backlash. I’m excited to start my new job. It’s at a large clinic with an HR department so they will vet people coming in. Thanks again!

Saw the post before it was deleted, the only thing I'd add is that if he was seeing patients as an MD in your state and his degree was from a degree mill, you may want to inform your state's board of healing arts. They may have done a background check on him and approved him after investigating, but they may have just seen his degree with a university attached and not investigated further. If you think he may see patients again in the future, it may be worth reporting, totally up to you though.

 

[Wordead]

Saw the post before it was deleted, the only thing I'd add is that if he was seeing patients as an MD in your state and his degree was from a degree mill, you may want to inform your state's board of healing arts. They may have done a background check on him and approved him after investigating, but they may have just seen his degree with a university attached and not investigated further. If you think he may see patients again in the future, it may be worth reporting, totally up to you though.

How is it optional to report someone with a fake degree who was treating patients

 

[Stagg737]

How is it optional to report someone with a fake degree who was treating patients

I don't think it is, but if he was already approved by his state's licensing board when he was seeing patients it might not matter. I'd report it either way and think OP should, but it's up to OP.