• lord_of_gloom@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Where did you get that idea? In Germany the average medical student(!) writes a dissertation that’s at most comparable to a masters thesis in other natural sciences… And all of that within a time frame of 6 months. Many don’t even bother with that any more.

    Of course, there are also medical students that go into research and really deepen scientific understanding. But that’s by far the exception.

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      9 months ago

      I have quite a few friends that studied medicine and are now working as “Facharzt” in hospitals. All said they needed to have 4 published articles as author’s or co author’s plus a dissertation just to start the journey of becoming specialized doctors. Their degree was after they defended their dissertations.