Nurse becoming a doctor?

Question

Can anyone here help me to find out if it's true that nurses can study medicine without going through the first 2 years in medical school? Serious answers are appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not quite sure where you have got your information from. A nursing degree and medical degree are very different. You would need to do 4 years at medical school. Medical students study the science subjects in much greater depth with an enormous amount of emphasis on anatomy and physiology, whereas nursing, comparatively speaking, is a brief overview of the main subjects since the vast majority of nurses are more involved in areas of patient care rather than diagnosis and treatment of a condition and therefore do not need as much medical knowledge as the physicians and surgeons. By skipping the first two years you would not be able to pass USMLE Step 1 examination. However, since you already have some clinical experience, along with a basic grounding in biomedical science, the first two years shouldn't seem as hard to you.

Answer 2

I'm currently training to be a nurse and was having this conversation a few weeks ago with some collegues who have looked into it. Apparently if you have done your training to be a nurse you only need to do a further two years in order to become a qualified doctor. Not sure how true this is and where the information was gathered though. I would advise speeking/emailing some universities for information on it.

Answer 3

the first two years of college are the same for a nurse and for a doctor so if you are a nurse you have already done those classes.

Answer 4

No, you'll have a big jump in pre-med prerequisites, but the classes in medical school are somewhat more in-depth. Gross anatomy alone is a killer compared to the A&P class you had, and then there's the physiology course. It goes on, but you get the drift.

Answer 5

no.you should study first.