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Please help! what is the difference between medicine degree and medicine and surgery ?
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MD: Med school grads are M.D.'s -doctors of medicine. States license "doctor of medicine and surgery" after completing 1 year internship. Licenses allow further training in surgery OR medicine, but the two are usually mutually exclusive. Training usually leads to board certification. Privileges to practice a specialty are granted by specific institutions after rigorous demonstration of competence.
Answered 11/17/2014
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