The field of bioethics

billybobbyk
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:37:20 +0000

The drawback to not doing an internship and residency is that you can’t get certified in a board specialty (ie orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, etc). As a result, you couldn’t become a practicing doctor. A year of internship is the minimum before you can do that, although it’s insane to think you can practice medicine after just a year of internship, and thus most everyone does a residency as well (and can then be taken seriously by the medical community)

I honestly don’t know anything about degrees in the field of bioethics or about PhDs in philosophy, but I do know that there are a bunch of MD/PhD combo degrees out there, and something related to bioethics may exist.