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Originally Posted by eribrav
Whoa, not so fast.
Nobody in the hospital should introduce themselves as a Doctor if they are not.
Med students should know better and if they don't kindly folks like me will remind them, nicely at first. Warn your roommate before someone not so nice as me finds him claiming to be a Doctor and leaves tire tracks down his back.
Med students are most certainly not "Board Certified". Only physicians are and if the physicians you saw are Boarded then they should be capable of practicing medicine..
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I never said he introduces himself as a doctor, nor does any other student that I'm aware of who has not graduated from school.
I was pointing out what PonyPotato was - that there is a gap between when a person earns the title "Doctor" and when they are able to practice medicine unsupervised. In that gap the doctors are still students.
I meant something other than what I think you meant by 'board certified'. I mean they had passed the licensing exam, which I've heard commonly referred to as 'boards'. I realize 'board certified' is used more commonly in reference to recognition of specialized training by the ABMS.