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talrich t1_iytywk8 wrote

Reply to comment by LateInTheAfternoon in What was history class like before the modern era? by SunsetShoreline

The MD is a clinical/professional degree. There are also PhDs in medicine with the research degree, and “double docs” with both a MD and PhD in medicine.

Medicine still has PhDs but I wouldn’t call any PhDs “handed out”.

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HermanCainsGhost t1_iyu0s37 wrote

> “double docs” with both a MD and PhD in medicine.

Old roommate of mine did this. Smart guy but damn his life was busy for quite a few years

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LateInTheAfternoon t1_iyu0clp wrote

It's a professional degree in the US and a few other places. In most of the world, however, MD is also for research degrees in medicine. "Handed out" was used for some light hearted levity. I cannot believe anyone would know so little about the education system that they'd think I meant it literally.

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talrich t1_iyu34dk wrote

I apologize. The world needs more levity. Doctoral degrees of all sorts have made some of us grumpy and old.

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hdorsettcase t1_iyv1m10 wrote

I dunno. I worked under a post doc in grad school who I suspect his PI wrote his dissertation. He did not last long. After he left our lab his former PI started popping up in his publications again.

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