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1) You don’t even need a bachelor’s! C’mon in with your associates, do a quick online degree, then unleash to unsuspecting public independently in 24 states. MD/DOs went to 4 years of med school and completed 3 years of residency to help people. #trainingmatters #patientsafety
2) Never mind the admissions criteria for said medical school vs the thousands of NP schools. Or the content. Ask any physician and they will tell you how much information you have to know to be primary care. I will never understand why midlevels think it is easy referral work.
3) Once in med ed you take boards. 3 of them. In med school you are constantly challenged with new information and aren’t allowed to work because of the sheer volume. Being a medical student is a full time job. Most NP students work while treating their education as a side gig.
4) Standardized ed requirements. Repeated (brutal) testing. 1000s of supervised patient contact hours prior to independent licensing. Strict scopes and graduate ed. All of these exist in med ed, but not in NP ed. All this makes a physician who knows enough to care for you.
