Originally Posted by larsll
Nope... "Bonusprogramm für Ärzte" means bonus program for medical doctors. Actually I guess in Germany it is like in Norway, where you first become an Arzt and then you can go on and study more and become Dr. Arzt. I would naturally suggest an executive bonus for those with a true doctor-title.
Now, drunk doctors performing emergency surgery... makes me think of M*A*S*H.
Correct: in most European countries the degree required to practise medicine is not a doctorate but the degree of candidate. I am a Norwegian physician, and my degree from the University of Trondheim (
not NTNU!!!!) is
candidatus medicinæ (cand. med.); a six year program. The degree of
doctor medicinæ is gradually being replaced here with the degree of Ph.D: both are degrees for research, and have nothing to do with the holder's clinical competence or lack of such.