A Medical Teacher Can Do His PhD After MD

There is a plan going on for bringing medical teachers at par with other subjects by asking them to complete their PhD  compulsorily to attain the status of associate  professor as is in vogue for other teachers. They say MD is only a PG degree and an Associate Professor and Professor should be a PhD in the subject. How logical is that? Unfortunately, most of the doctors are unaware of the status of their degree. The degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) is equivalent to a Doctor of Philosophy.

A doctor is not a Doctor because he treats, but because he is a Doctor of Medicine. Doctor means teacher, not a physician. MBBS doctors are called doctors as a courtesy, they are not doctors in the real sense of the word, I like it or not. An MBBS is equivalent to an MSc and that is why he could join college as a lecturer as any MSc can. But to become an associate professor he has to get his MD like…