First Year of Medicine?

LolaLuv

May I ask what first year medicine means? Here, that would mean your first year of medical school after completion of a BS. It's different in Ireland, I'm assuming?

Split from 'Introduce yourself' thread.

LolaLuv

Oh, someone PMed me a response, so you can close the thread if you want.

Well since the title might get someone else's attention and someone might pop in and ask an unrelated question about medicine, I'll leave it open

LolaLuv

Ok, that sounds good, too!

Kwekubo

In countries like America, Canada etc, medicine is a postgraduate course and results in the award of a doctorate (MD) as the standard degree for doctors. In Ireland, UK and other countries, medicine is an undergraduate degree and results in the award of a bachelor's degree (MB or BM) as the norm; in these countries, MD refers to a postgraduate research degree and is relatively rare. So most Irish doctors aren't 'really' doctors.

Jimdw

Kwekubo wrote: »

So most Irish doctors aren't 'really' doctors.

They are GPs maybe.

billykwok

yea i would probably call them physicians rather than doctor; because doctor is really a title reserved for people who has done a PhD (which is the case in the states and canada) but not other places in the world