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I studied chemistry in college. That doesn't mean computer programming is a chemical discipline. Psychiatrists go to medical school so they can prescribe medi
by fjdlwlv 10y ago
I studied chemistry in college. That doesn't mean computer programming is a chemical discipline.
Psychiatrists go to medical school so they can prescribe medicine without killing a patient, not because medical school has a scientifically rigorous psychiatry curriculum. Remember that homosexuality was a psychiatric disease until recently.
- jakewins 10y agoSo, this may simply be because this differs between countries - I live in the US. Here, you do not study psychiatry in med school, it's something you study after you complete regular medical school. The rough path looks like: - 4 years of undergrad, ideally with one major in Biology - MCAT - 4 years of general medical school - 4 years of specialized psychiatry residency, usually at university hospital Meaning, here in the US it's a medical discipline, but this may not be the case where you live. You're absolutely right that there is a horrific history to the field of psychiatry - homosexuality indeed wasn't unlisted until a little over 40 years ago. However, this is rapidly changing with the advent of tools like PCR and Western Blotting, which allows psychiatry to research mental disease on the level of individual gene expression and proteins.