RN to MD

[showbiz]

Does anymone know how an RN can go quickly to a MD???

Thanks,

Sara

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Does anymone know how an RN can go quickly to a MD???

Thanks,

Sara

Yeah, four years of medical school plus a three-year minimum of residency. Look at it this way, 7 years is a pretty short amount of time... at least in a cosmological sense.



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P.S. Sorry, if you actually want a medical license that you can use in the U.S. and to be able to legally call yourself "doctor", there are no shortcuts.

 

[boogaking]

If you're not doing it for the title but for the type of work... look into NP... it's a growing field with growing potentials... as a nurse your just two years from that degree... I hear NP's can open up their own practices in some parts of the country.

 

[azskeptic]

If you're not doing it for the title but for the type of work... look into NP... it's a growing field with growing potentials... as a nurse your just two years from that degree... I hear NP's can open up their own practices in some parts of the country.

in arizona they can be sole practice folks and open up offices,etc.

 

[Kahkeetsee]

Sara,
What this means, without all the sarcasm, is that you must still take the pre-medical courses such as OChem, etc..and go through the usual application to medical school. The only shortcut I can think of, is if you are a BSN, so that already having a 4 year degree you only need those classes as post bacc, along with taking the MCAT, etc. If your grades were very good through a four year program, the pre-med prereqs may be all you require before applying to medical school. I wish you the best in whatever you decide.