Changing from ICU nurse to a doctor?

[DelaneysMum]

Hi,

My husband is American and we are leaving Australia to live in the USA.

I am an Intensive Care Nurse with a post graduate degree and are looking to change career to do medicine.

If you're a nurse in Australia, you only have to study for 3yrs to be a doctor.

What is the situation in the USA with nurses who want to study medicine? Is the medicine course shortened there also?

What should I use as a title to research in the universities in the USA?

Thanks

[elkpark]

I have never known an RN to became an MD/DO.

I've known several, including my father over 60 years ago and a resident I encountered just earlier this year. It's not all that uncommon.

[imaginations]

No, it's not. I know plenty of RNs who've gone to medical school. Point is, they didn't expect - or get - credit or recognition of prior learning for being an RN. Everyone comes in from scratch. The reality is - being a doctor is nothing like being a nurse. & in Australia, the pre-reqs required for medicine (bio, chem, physics) are a) not compulsory, simply expected and b) not required for nursing.

[HazelLPN, LPN]

That's good to know. I personally have never seen it...but glad to hear that it does in fact happen. I should have said in my post that the nursing science courses are NOT the same as the pre meds..either a typo or a senior moment.

Wow, a male nurse 60 years ago. He was a trail blazer in more ways than one. My cap is off to him.

Best to you,

Mrs H.