how different is a graduate of dnb family medicine, from that of a dnb medicine ,in respect to medicine?
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A Family Medicine graduate is a resident who trains for 3 years to recognise and treat all health problems that could arise in a family in the background of Community Medicine. The candidate will be trained to manage all basic health problems in basic specialties and will decide to refer the patients to specialists only when necessary.\n\nThis is an attempt to follow the system of healthcare through General Practitioners, as it exists in the United Kingdom. It is a very valuable course and will be useful to the patient because he will be seen as a person and not as a case. All the referrals will be integrated by the Family Physician and he will be in-charge of the patient as a whole. This will avoid the situation where patients are shunted between different specialists because each one sees only the health problem pertaining to his or her own speciality.\n\nFurther details can be had from the Nation Board of Examinations' website at www.natboard.nic.in. I hope this is a convincing answer to your question.
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I should be graduating from med school.  Aside from that it's hard to say what I would be doing as I know I will be a completely different person than who I am today.  I'm sure I'll be thinking about my career and getting my own practice going.  I'll probably have a headache from being so smart, or something.
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They are not the same.  Dual specialization is more like finance + marketing; leadership + organizational behavior; strategy + operations; etc.  You'll usually be able to complete it within the normal period of time.\n\nJoint Degree is more like Law JD + MBA; Bio PhD + MBA; ; Master in Architecture + MBA; etc.  Typically, these take a lot longer.
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University of South Carolina Medicine, My cousin went there and she now works at Duke Medical center. Good luck in your studies.
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It's not too late!  Lots of people come back to enter the health care field later in life.  Visit www.studentdoctor.net and click on forums, then look especially at the forum for 'non-traditional' (i.e. not coming straight out of undergraduate degree) students.  There is LOTS of helpful information.\n\nI am also planning to take a non-traditional route, going a few years after I get a Masters degree in public health.  For starters, make sure you've taken all the science pre-requisities to get into med school (bio, chem, physics, etc.).  Look on specific school websites to see the requirements.  You can take classes at a local community college.\n\nGood luck, and I hope you find lots of helpful info on studentdoctor.net --I know it's helped me a lot!
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At this time graduates of Chirpractic colleges earn the doctor of Chiropractic degree (DC), not a doctor of Chiropractic Medicine degree (DCM).  The term medicine is often misleading in that Chiropractic, as is Allopathy (Western medicine), Osteopathy, Naturopathy and other health care forms are each a different form of medicine.  I graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles in 1991, which had an outstanding out-patient clinic that prepared me for nearly all possible problems I have been asked to evaluate and treate, and feel it is one of the best in the world, not just the USA.  All of the colleges which are CCE accredited are professional and have high standards.  If you are interested in attending a Chiropractic college, it is important to consider the region you would prefer to live in while at school.  If you are most interested in a traditional approach, then Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, Iowa, might be best.
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a psychiatrist is an MD..they can prescribe drugs\na psychologist is a phd, they can't prescribe drugs, and an MD would make more.
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First of all, where is your home country?\nSecond, what do you mean by majoring "medicine"? Are you talking about a pharmaceutic major?\nNeed to be more specific with your question.
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M.A  Master Of Arts\nMBA  Master of Business Administration\nMD   Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine)\nJD   Justice Department\nPHD  Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy)
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Doctor of Medicine (M.D., from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor) is an academic degree. The nature of the degree varies in different countries, from being an entry-level professional degree to being a higher doctoral research degree.\n\nIn Canada and the United States, the M.D. is one of two basic medical degrees required to practice medicine. The other being the D.O. degree (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). Medical degrees are professional doctorates and are distinct from a research doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph.D.), which requires a graduate thesis (doctoral dissertation) – the M.D. and Ph.D. in medicine are entirely separate.\n\nAccredited medical schools almost always require a previous bachelor's degree. The M.D. is typically earned in four years. At most medical schools, the first two years primarily involve classroom instruction in both lecture and laboratory formats while the final two years are comprised of a series of clerkships in clinical departments such as family practice, surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology. Following the awarding of the M.D., physicians who wish to practice in the United States are encouraged or required to undergo additional training in the form of a residency. Depending upon the physician's chosen field, residencies involve an additional 3 to 7 years of training after obtaining the M.D.\n\nIt is the entry-level medical degree equivalent in most professional respects to the Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery awarded in Commonwealth countries (excluding Canada).
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It matters what interests you.  Me, personally, the brain interests me, so I would like to be in the field of neurology.  I know two other people who would rather go into pharmacy and cardiology, but that was their choices, and not mine.
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not really doctor but respiratory therapy graduate / nursing student.  a little knowledgeable in this area. (just a little - compared to a doctor of course)\n\nand i know what "mabait na dalawang sapatos" mean.
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There are certainly opportunities in the pharma industry for an MBA who has done an MBBS. \n\nYou may enjoy the role of managing the research process of a lab, etc. This will put your managerial skills and skills & intuition as a doctor. This role will give you opportunities in product development.\n\nAlternatively you may opt for a role in the sales/marketing domain. For one you may manage the sales network of the organisation directly (say, manage sales executives who sell to pharmacies). You might also choose to be in-charge of managing a team of agents who call on doctors, and encourage the doctors to use products of the specific organisation. A role in marketing may also entail collection of primary data from outlets and doctors that will provide research inputs & requirements for the labs.\n\nYou indeed have several exciting opportunities in the field!
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Medicine: An M.B.B.S. doctor who specializes in medicine and acquires an M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) degree becomes physician. A physician job is to understand patient’s problems, study the results of clinical tests, diagnosing the illness and then prescribing the course of treatment.\n\nPediatrics: A medical doctor who specializes in Pediatrics is called Pediatrician. A pediatrician deals with the children’s health from newborn to adolescents. A pediatrician diagnoses and conducts treatment of the disease peculiar to children.\n\nCardiology: Cardiology deals with disorders of the heart. A Cardiologist performs specialized work like bypass surgery, angiography, angioplasty etc.\n\nObstetrics AND Gynecology: Obstetricians and Gynecologists diagnose and treat the disorders in female reproductive organs. Obstetricians and Gynecologists also conduct operations like caesarian, laparoscopies and hysteroscopies. These specialists also deal with ovarian cancer and other illnesses related to reproductive systems.\n\nNeurosurgery: Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating the central and peripheral nervous system. Neurosurgical conditions include primarily brain and spinal cord disorders. The medical doctors specialized in this field are called Neurosurgeons.\n\nOrthopedics: Orthopedic surgeons deal with illness of the skeletal structure. They diagnose and treat fractures and disorders of the skeletal frame. An orthopedic suggests therapies and exercise for patients which are conducted by Physiotherapists.\n\nOphthalmologists: Ophthalmologists diagnose and conduct treatment for the diseased human eye. Ophthalmologists are trained to conduct surgeries of the eye, operations for the removal of cataract, treatment of glaucoma and other such diseases and infections of the eye.\n\nPsychiatry: A medical doctor who has specialized in Psychiatry is called Psychiatrist. A psychiatrist treats mental, emotional or behavioral disorders.
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It depends on what you are more interested in!\nMedicine will definitely give you more secure job prospects, but only if you have a genuine interest in and desire to practice medicine. For that reason, and because it is an extremely competitive course to get into, some people will perceive medicine as being more valuable, but you should choose your degree based on what you want to do and what you enjoy, not on what other people think.\n\nDon't believe anyone who tells you psychology is a worthless degree (especially if they can't spell psychology). It doesn't lead into an obvious career path in the way a medical degree does, but it's not worthless. Some people might see it as a 'soft touch', easy course, and there are people out there who breeze through a degree with no real work and universities that offer poor quality degrees - that doesn't mean that there aren't extremely challenging and interesting courses out there and plenty of bright, motivated students who excel in their fields.\n\nIt's true that psychology has its problems and flaws, but so does every social/life science - life is messy that way. In fact, medicine faces some of the same problems establishing credibility as psychology does. It's a massively varied and fascinating field - sometimes the lack of interdisciplinary co-operation is fascinating, sometimes it's just frustrating! It's not a dull subject to study - if it is, you're being taught wrong!\n\nI'll admit I'm biased in as much as I *have* a degree in psychology myself, but I won't belittle medicine either. It can be a highly rewarding career for those with the right aptitude and attitude, and it requires a tremendous amount of hard work. Hats off to those who make it through - we have a much more pressing need for doctors than we do for psychologists, and I'm grateful to those who do choose to study it. It's a much more applied subject to study than psychology, and if you're more interested in taking a practical, hands-on sort of approach it might suit you better than psychology which tends to be a lot more academic.\n\nSo, after all that, I don't think you can say one is better than the other! You're still quite young so you have plenty of time to decide, and the qualifications you'll need to study either subject are quite similar - although you can do a psychology degree with limited experience of science and maths, I'd definitely advise you take biology and possibly chemistry too (definitely take chemistry if you have any interest in fields like neuroscience) - so if you make sure you have a strong scientific background you could apply to either course when the time comes to choose.\nDon't forget, you can also opt to do a psychology degree as an undergraduate and then do a postgraduate medicine qualification - you'd get the best of both worlds and probably have the makings of a great psychiatrist!
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What do you mean by doctor's degree? Medical doctor or Ph.D?\nNeither of them can be converted.\nIf it's a Ph.D., you don't need to convert it. It is usually recognized in most parts of the world.\nIf MD, you need to past the license test and complete internship in that state.
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Amberwaves is right, it means Doctor of Osteopathy, which is different from an MD in that they are trained to treat the human body in a more holistic way as opposed to treating it symptomatically.