MD is an undergraduate professional degree. FHS at mac has a special grade for professors involved mostly in clinical work called Associate Clinical Professor, a large portion of whom only have an MD, as opposed to other tenure track professors who by a large majority in most fields have PhDs.

Originally Posted by britb

It is... I think he's referring to the fact that you get called "Dr" for both, and that MDs can be required for profs (med school) like a PhD.

Ah, I get it. My bad.

Originally Posted by arathbon

MD is an undergraduate professional degree. FHS at mac has a special grade for professors involved mostly in clinical work called Associate Clinical Professor, a large portion of whom only have an MD, as opposed to other tenure track professors who by a large majority in most fields have PhDs.

Yeah, I know that. I just misunderstood your point earlier.

Maters what field. As an example from the big bang theory, a PhD in French studies ..

Take those only if you want to teach it