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Amateur Degree. Gotta go full doctor if you wanna be pro.
/s, right?
Obviously
Shit's absolutely fucked when the sarcasm in my initial comment isn't obvious to everyone reading it.
Agreed.
I felt dumb for checking but clarification is never a bad way to roll hahaha
They once tried to prove that DNPs (Doctorate of Nurse Practitioner) was just as good as an MD or DO education. They did this by taking the top DNP grads from the best programs and gave them a dumbed down version of the easiest part of the medical license exam, and only 40% passed it.
For context, to get a medical license, a physician has to have passed Steps 1-3 of the USMLE (US Medical License Exam) or Levels 1-3 of COMLEX (Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Exam) to be eligible to apply for a medical license. Step/Level 2 is usually considered the hardest one of the three, and Step/Level 3 is the longest exam (2 full days), but generally considered to be the easiest. This DNP exam took the easiest 20% of questions from Step 3 and made a half-length version of the exam....and 60% of the DNPs still failed it.
The NP/DNP education is almost entirely algorithm-based and doesn't meaningfully get into the anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology that the first 2 years of medical school are devoted to. I have seen NPs miss life-threatening diagnoses because they were rare diseases that don't come up outside of those first 2 years of drinking from a firehose of textbooks in medical school. Their education just isn't long enough or in-depth enough to actually be equivalent to an MD or DO degree.
Also, MDs and DOs have almost 4000 hours of supervised medical practice where a physician is checking their work and directly observing or guiding their clinical experience before finishing medical school. Residency is, at minimum, another 8000 to 10000 hours of supervised practice in the specialties that only require 3 years of residency (it ranges from 3 to 9 years based on specialty).
NPs don't have any standardized requirements for supervised practice to get their licenses and most programs only require 1000 hours or less of shadowing where they are just observing a licensed NP practice and not actually doing anything hands-on themselves.... And they try to argue that this education is sufficient for them to be equal to physicians. There are some NPs who are amazing providers, but they're usually the ones that were bedside nurses for 10+ years before going back to school for their NP license. The newer NPs that are going straight through from their BSN without any actual experience are the really dangerous ones.
TO BE CLEAR: I love the nurses I work with and I value their work and their input immensely. I was an EMT/ER tech before med school and it's really sad when nurses are so confused when I help them clean up patients or reposition or whatever as a med student because most physicians and medical students don't stop to help the nurses clean up poop. You can always tell which physicians have never had to clean up poop before, and I try very hard not to be like them.