January 6th, 2009
i really hope so, because right now im faced with deciding wether or not to pursue M.D. or P.A. i think im going to do the straight shot for M.D. to save the money in respect to finishing med school later.Probably not until med schools lack applicants.There is one in the Carribean (only one). Otherwise, I don't see that ever happening. If they let in one group, they'd have to let in others, and then you'd have docs with all kinds of training.Until there is some standardization of the educational process for the PA it would be difficult for this to become a blanket PA to MD. Currently, in the US, a PA might be a graduate of an associate degree program, a certificate program, a bachelors degree program or a masters degree program. At what level would this transition course be aimed? Also as Diane has said there are many other health care specialties and providers who would then request a transition course, and it would be difficult to make a program which met all of the different needs.
In our current system if a Doctor of Podiatry wants to become an MD they must attend a 4 year MD program. If a person who has a Doctor of Nurse Practice as a Nurse Practitioner desired to be an MD, they must also attend all 4 years of the MD program. This also applies to a Doctor of Pharmacy who practices Clinical Pharmacy. In each of these cases you have health care providers who have already received professional doctorates in their specialty, but not as an MD or DO.
As Diane mentioned there are schools outside the US which will provide such courses, but these same schools normally accept students which have traditionally been turned down by the US medical schools.
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