Nov
08
If you had a PhD in Psychology and an MD in Neurology could you call yourself a Psychiatrist?
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Question: If you had a degrees in both Psychology and Neurology: you could could perscribe medicine and you know everything a Neurologist knows about Psychiatry and the science of the brain and you have a degree in Psychology so you understand the mind. So I don’t see why you couldn’t do the same job as a Psychiatrist.
Even though a psychologist cannot persrcibe medicine a nurologist can, does that mean a person with a degree in neurology and psychology could do the job of a psychiatrist just as competeantly.
3 Comments
November 8th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
not sure the question you are really asking;Psychologist cannot write prescriptions, Psychiatrist, can. Neurologist is completely different than a Psychiatrist, number 1, a lot more college M.D.approx. 8 years. Psychiatrist about half as much
November 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
If you have an MD and have four additional years of Psychology you may call yourself a pyschiatrist pr say however, you could call yourself anything you want-with consequences of course
November 8th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I think he could be a neurologist, psychologist, or possibly even a neuropsychologist. But I don’t think he could be a psychiatrist, since that is not his area of specialty. There is an overlap, but technically, I don’t think you can be a psychiatrist. I think you need to do a psychiatry residency, internship, and pass the boards in psychiatry.