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Originally Posted by Pectus Solentis
Well. I thought doctors and nurses have significant differences when they do their major.
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Some of that is timing, some of that is methodology, and some of that is emphasis.
In the US, Nurses work hard at learning medicine almost immediately. In a four year degree, the last two and a half years are strait nursing courses that study nothing but specialized nursing courses.
By contrast, medical students during this time are taking academic courses on chemistry, physiology, and microbiology. None of these courses are really specialized for medicine, and very few of them are taught by practicing medical doctors. About the time the Nurse steps out of school to start their first job, the premed student applies to a new school and actually becomes a medical student with four more years of school and more mandated training time still head of them. And those are the nurses who took the long road.
The medical program and the nursing program are more similar to each other than premed and nursing, but they study in different parts of the medical system, and they study the parts they'll be doing. And the emphasis of doctors on diagnosis vs care is very much a thing.