Originally posted by Freeeedom!:
•Listen, nursing school and medical school are worlds apart. Physicians must pass 3 sets of boards to be licensed, then attend a residency, then pass board certification which in many cases has an oral portion...all of this added to 4 years of medical training, which is the most intense stuff imaginable. I had a graduate degree prior to attending med school and the amount of intense studying is a far cry from my Masters. Yet the challenge is wonderful.
Entrance into the two fields is vastly different as well. The GRE was a breeze compared to the MCAT...let alone the hoops needed to jump through to get Med school interviews.
But once again I state, the challenge has been wonderful. And the prospects are exciting.
A friend of mine who recently graduated from Law School told me candidly, that these new physician extenders (PA's , Nurse Practitionors) are soon to be a liability. They are law suits waiting to happen, and many lawyers ARE WAITING.•