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Is just a medical degree worth anything? That's my $250,000 question.
Is just a medical degree worth anything? That's my $250,000 question.
Is just a medical degree worth anything? That's my $250,000 question.
Plenty of M.D.'s eschew residency and go work for McKinsey and Bain -- and make out like bandits.
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Can't you just do an internship year, then get licensed and practice as a general practitioner?
Legally? Yes.
Practically and realistically? No.
Please explain.
Practice groups won't find you a desirable hire.
Insurance companies will be less likyly to include you in your provider network so you will depend on out-of-pocket customers.
Hospitals might not grant you privileges.
Malpractice coverage will cost you more.
Groups will not hire you.
Insurance companies will not include you in their network.
People paying out of pocket will not pay for your poorly trained services (unless you drastically undercut other docs in the area).
Hospitals will not grant you privileges.
Sorry to revive such an old post. But why won't groups hire you? If you can prove that you are a competent physician by working per diem, won't that suffice. With the rise of NP's and PA's taking over Family Practice/GP roles, it just doesn't make much sense.
I would understand that due to the higher malpractice and lack of privleges at major hospitals, it would be difficult to be reimbursed as much as a Family Practitioner, but still I think that there are still job opportunities in groups, don't you think?
Sorry to revive such an old post. But why won't groups hire you? If you can prove that you are a competent physician by working per diem, won't that suffice. With the rise of NP's and PA's taking over Family Practice/GP roles, it just doesn't make much sense.
I would understand that due to the higher malpractice and lack of privleges at major hospitals, it would be difficult to be reimbursed as much as a Family Practitioner, but still I think that there are still job opportunities in groups, don't you think?
From a patient's perspective, MD/DO Dr. gives me more comfort than seeing some PA, or Nurse. Just my opinion.
Because, there is risk to giving rope to hang yourself. The proof they want is a diploma showing you have completed a rigorous and complete course of training....why won't groups hire you? If you can prove that you are a competent physician by working per diem, won't that suffice...
I like Arcan57's answer...From a patient's perspective, MD/DO Dr. gives me more comfort than seeing some PA, or Nurse. Just my opinion.
The exception might be disaster medicine, where they'll take any help they can get. I'd be curious what Doctors without Borders policy would be. Though that's more volunteer work than a lucrative career.
Link in quote above will work. They also specify:Even for the US branch of MSF, they specify that one of the professional requirements of physician volunteers is that they have completed a residency.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/work/field/recruitment.cfm
I think just completing medical school MD/DO or even completing medical school and only part of residency would not meet those requirements. I appreciate we all want to make sure people have minimum care. However, just because ~ "they are poor" or "they are desperate" does not mean lets throw them the the layer just above the bottom of the barrel. The needy are an ~at risk population and we should think twice about sending them care that is likely less then we would accept for ourselves or our families under the rationalization that we are doing good by giving them something "better then nothing".1. At least 2 years of relevant professional experience
For physicians, completion of residency.
2. No recent gap in clinical experience greater than 2 years
3. Experience supervising, managing, & training others
Also, these non-clinical MD/DO jobs generally look for something ~a little special, i.e. you have a quality MBA/MPH/MMM/PhD or something. Thus, these do not generally represent the people who had difficulty matching.This is usually when drjosephkim shows up and says "there are lots of opportunities out there for non-residency trained doctors." That will be the only thing he will post though...I'm guessing access to such "opportunities" requires a little "opportunity cost."...