[syedkarim]

Why do you include your undergraduate degree as part of your medical training? I've asked dozens of doctors (and lawyers) about the relevance of their college/undergraduate education to their day-to-day work and none have said it was critical, most have said it was not relevant, and some have had completely non-medical majors (music and physics). Of course, maybe it's different for you, which is why I ask.

[WirelessGigabit]

It could be more of explaining the total duration and cost of how long they went to college.

If it's required to have an undergrad I believe one can mention it, even if the undergraduate isn't required.

Like in Belgium you need to have a masters for certain government jobs, but it's not relevant in which field.

[aylmao]

+1. In Mexico there's a "Medicine" major, which is longer than other majors, but not as long as doing a 4 year undergrad degree followed by a 4 years of med-school. I've always found interesting and a little pointless that even if you know you want to be a doctor you have to go through the extra steps of two degrees/schools.

[kortilla]

Then why not include high school?

Unless the degree was exclusive to medicine, including it is bullshit.

MDs have a glorified 4 year masters and an on the job training program not significantly different than what it takes to become a PE.

[s1artibartfast]

But you can become a PE without a masters. Would you say that PEs the only requirement for PE is 2 year Mentorship?

Maybe people should be able to go straight into medschool with an associates or hs diploma

[kortilla]

Yes

[nextaccountic]

what's PE?

[kortilla]

Professional Engineer

[coryrc]

Anatomy and many other highly relevant undergraduate courses in biology and chemistry are mandatory for the postgraduate degrees.

[mattkrause]

I think the standard pre-reqs in the US are two semesters of biology, math, and physics, four of chemistry (general and organic).

I doubt that any of this is directly relevant to patient care and honestly, I’m skeptical that it’s either necessary or sufficient background for the stuff that is.

[brewdad]

I wouldn't trust any MD that couldn't manage a C- in all of those subjects.

[dataflow]

> Why do you include your undergraduate degree as part of your medical training?

Was the comment edited after you posted this? Because I don't see them saying this was part of their training at all. They wrote "12 years of school and training", and this is the school part.

[syedkarim]

You caught something I didn't. The first paragraph states "12 years of school and training". The second paragraph has the same phrase, but without "school". I was focused on the second paragraph without realizing it was likely referencing the first one.

[dataflow]

Funny, I missed that phrase in the second paragraph instead. Yeah I think in that paragraph they just used the word training to encompass everything the job requires you to have done (after K-12).