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away from patients by their first names usually!
formally
- any junior and any grade of higher specialst trainee or fully trained physician are known as 'Doctor'
-any Consultant or fully trained carreer grade (e.g Staff specialists)surgeon and some Higher surgical trainees ( i.e. with their part 2) is 'Mr' or 'Miss'
because UK medical schools are undergraduate entry the degree is a double - bachelors ( triple in the case of some Republic of Ireland unis) bachelor of medicine (MB or BM ) Bachelor of Surgery (BS, BCh ,ChB ) and the third (irish) is bachelor of obstetrics (BAO)
MD is a post basic, usually research, degree when awarded by a UK Medical School
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How do you address physicians in the UK? Are they called Dr. So-and-so? As I understand it, a physician in the UK is not an MD but an MBBS is that right? What about surgeons?