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What is there for an MD who does not complete internship and residency? What jobs have you heard of people getting with the medical education but not the license and training?
Consult for Hollywood shows
Yeah I guess if you don't want to be a doctor you can always just go create some shows like ER. Other possiblities on the list include Senator Majority Leader and Governor of Vermont.to each his or her own life...
there are lots of examples of people graduating from med school without post-grad training who have gone on to be successful in other fields. or even in medicine (administration, business, dare i say it-- law....).
guess whose credentials these are:
.....born in Chicago, Illinois, October 23, 1942. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. (summa cum laude) 1964 (Phi Beta Kappa). Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65. Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. Graduated Harvard Medical School, M.D. 1969; post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California 1969-1970. Visiting Writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.
who is it??
I hope this doesn't open an entirely different can of worms, but seriously - the liklihood of becoming a consultant or being offered any type of well-paying (i.e. able to pay back the enormous debt you will owe) job out of medical school is slim to none - even if you graduate from HMS and have a tremendous resume.
If you seriously want weekends off and aren't sure if residency fits into your plans after medical school, don't go. Period. You will be wasting a ton of money (and government funding) for a piece of paper and the title M.D., not to mention taking a coveted educational space away from someone who may actually want to contribute to society in a clinical way (i.e. be a real doctor).
That's not actually true. There are a couple of people every year in my med school class of 86 that decide to do healthcare consulting type jobs. You can make low six figures from that. I don't think they're that hard to get (it's a different skillset from clinical medicine though, so you would have to make some adjustments to your self-presentation).
But, yeah, I agree with your second paragraph: don't do an M.D. if you're not prepared for the sacrifices and committment required.
For like which companies?
I'm not even in med school but I do work for the Federal Government and I can tell you while all the docs in the Federal Government I work with completed residencies have or are still practicing I know many people on Capitol Hill working as staffers who earned an MD or MD/PhD who never did clinical work. They work as health analysts. I'm not sure that's helpful for you.
There are some that earn a JD and work at the Patent Office, etc.
What is there for an MD who does not complete internship and residency? What jobs have you heard of people getting with the medical education but not the license and training?
A local bar-tender told me he got his MD a few years ago but chose not to practice. He said he was not the only one from his class that did this. Apparently the guy that owns the nightclub also has an MD without a license. Bottom line is: the jobs you can get with an MD and no license/residency would probably be the same jobs you could get right now without a medical education, so why waste your time and money?
A local bar-tender told me he got his MD a few years ago but chose not to practice. He said he was not the only one from his class that did this. Apparently the guy that owns the nightclub also has an MD without a license. Bottom line is: the jobs you can get with an MD and no license/residency would probably be the same jobs you could get right now without a medical education, so why waste your time and money?