<p>My dad was a high school guidance counselor and he had all of his degrees on his office wall.</p>
<p>So you feel better about all the indignities they perpetrate during the exam. And the billing process.</p>
<p>Beachlover15, a few years ago the district in which I teach went through a “college readiness emphasis” and pressured all to display their diplomas. There was a week devoted to wearing one’s alma mater tshirts and other regalia. It was fun and exposed the kids to a large number of schools that don’t get much press. </p>
<p>I thought it was so patients could feel assured that they were seeing a real doc, not a fake.</p>
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<p>I think people want to know that they were educated. Do we really care where/which med school? Frankly, there are a number of med schools that are very impressive, yet I had never even heard of them until a couple of years ago. therefore, if I had once seen the name on a diploma, I wouldn’t have known to be somewhat impressed. lol Actually all US MD med schools are very good, so they should all be impressive…but med schools are funny…some of the best ones are on campuses with undergrads that we’ve barely heard of or are less impressive.</p>
<p>When my parents were very ill, we went to a number of different specialists, spending time in their private offices, diplomas on walls. I vaguely remember one went to some NY Upstate med school (?), and one went to UIC, and one went somewhere in India. I didn’t care. These folks had come highly recommended…and all were knowledgeable, personable, patient, and very kind to my parents. One even came to my dad’s funeral. </p>
<p>As a physician, I have never displayed my diplomas in my office. Never felt the need either in private practice, or in med school as a prof, or at the current government job. Interestingly, I joked for many years (and really to this day) that I should have displayed my birth certificate. The only consistent question I have been asked in my 32 years of practice is how old I am. I still look too young to 80 plus year olds but the age is creeping upward of the ones that think I look too young. Many people I work with display their degrees- physicians, psychologists, social workers. Perhaps if I did display my diplomas they could guess my age. I never thought about that before. At this point they are just thrilled to get in and be seen. </p>
<p>It is REQUIRED by some licensing boards to display a professional license – but not necessarily the school diploma.</p>
<p>This was standard practice at the law offices where I’ve worked, though it isn’t required.</p>
<p>When I became a counselor at Northwestern Law, I asked my boss whether it was appropriate to hang them in my office. He said, “Heavens yes! Hang your bar admissions, too. Otherwise the students don’t think we’re lawyers!” It was a good reminder of the status of staff vs. faculty in academia, even when everybody has the same terminal degree.</p>
<p>I was required to have my teachers certification, state license, and ASHA CCC certificates hanging in my room. They showed that I was properly and currently credentialed to do my job.</p>
<p>My diplomas are all hanging in my laundry room. :)</p>
<p>My daughter has her undergrad and grad school diplomas on her office wall, along with her Physician Assistant license. One reason she does it is that it is illegal for her to imply that she is a doctor. so the diplomas and certificates make her profession clear. Plus she’s darn proud of her accomplishment, and finds it hard some days to remember that this is real (kinda scary to realize that she has peoples’ lives in her hands). </p>
<p>Just to amuse anyone who is reading all of her certificates, she also has a “diploma”: in pretzel folding from the Lititz PA bakery that made the first baked pretzels.d</p>
<p>My Vets have their diplomas and extra specialties displayed in the reception room. </p>
<p>I had mine on the wall in my old office, along with some awards and certifications. People would look at them. When we moved the office I went to part time and ofice share, so didnt put them on the wall. They are in a box in my basement. </p>
<p>I dont think my son will be displaying his certificate his friends made him honoring his ability to make an excellent beer-pong table. </p>
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<p>My older son has a certificate for “backwards bailing” from Sailing Camp! It’s hanging up in our basement.</p>
<p>I am a school nurse and have been considering hanging my diplomas as well. I am mandated to display my license in my office.
I want to hang my diplomas for a few reasons. Firstly, I am in an educational setting and want to promote higher education to my students. Quite frankly, I would also like some people to know that I have a MSN from an excellent university. (The educational requirements for RN licensure vary greatly - from a hospital nursing diploma to BSN.) I’m proud of my degrees and want to promote my profession in this way.</p>
<p>On the other hand, none of my degrees are in my married name so I would probably spend half my time explaining the discrepancy! ;-)</p>
<p>My mom was a high school science teacher. To pay for our college, when my sister and I reached junior high, she went back to school (state directional) to get her masters so she would earn more money. She said a couple of her science classes were interesting, but as a teacher with over 15 years experience at the time, the degree really in no way made her a better teacher. Her editorial comment was to hang her masters diploma over the toilet in the downstairs bathroom. That way every visitor to the house was aware of her viewpoint! It stayed there until my folks sold the house and retired to Florida.</p>
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<p>Yes, they do. I doubt they care if it is Southwestern Med School or Cleveland Clinic Lerner, but I think many of them like to be assured that their doctor went to a medical school in the United States. As a nurse, I don’t have that bias, but many patients do believe that only US medical schools are acceptable.</p>
<p>Maybe it is because of my own not-so-good experience with a doctor who was trained in a 6-year BS-MD accelerated program; I do not like to be treated by a doctor who was trained in such an accelerated program. (I admit it is my bias. But I had to stay at a hospital for almost 4-5 months totally for a case which usually requires less than a week! He also tended to choose a very late time, say, 5:00 or 6:00 pm for a major surgery. When he released me from the hospital, I waited till almost 7:00 pm before he showed up - when he needed to remove the tube from me at such a late time, he could not locate a nurse to give him needed materials as he did not communicate with any nurse in the hospital in advance on that day! He ended up picking up needed materials from a pharmacy several miles away by himself in the evening. Not very organized.)</p>
<p>When my child was growing up, his pediatric doctor seems to have been graduated from a foreign med school. (He has a heavy foreign accent.) But it seems he is fine. But I did not check his credential back then because I only paid attention to this “school issue” in recent years.</p>
<p>@mcat2 pay attention to the residency. I don’t like 6 year BS-MD programs either, but that isn’t where the training occurs; it is where it starts. The best internist I have ever known is from South Africa. He reads the internal medicine text cover to cover every year and was the point of reference for all of the other doctors. Finding a good physician requires so much more than looking at their education. </p>
<p>^ Thanks.</p>
<p>BTW, is the "internal medicine " specialization (as in the residency program) the same as the “medicine” specialization?</p>
<p>I thought they are the same but my wife believes they are different. (We are supposedly better than most people about this, as we even know what sub-i, preliminary, transitional , advanced and category programs are!)</p>
<p>Also, in your opinion, is neurology a good field to get in purely from the economics (not for student’s “interest” ) point of view?</p>
<p>South Africa has a few famous physicians!</p>