This would be more believable position if nurse practitioners have ever been able to demonstrate equivalent medical knowledge to physicians, but when the best

This would be more believable position if nurse practitioners have ever been able to demonstrate equivalent medical knowledge to physicians, but when the best trained NPs were given the chance to take a watered down version of Step 3 which has a 97% MD pass rate with 1-3 weeks of casual studying, only 40% passed. The reality is an equivalent number of years does not equate the quality and rigor of the family medicine which is argueably one of the hardest specialties. This is notwithstanding the explosion of NP diploma mills with classes on lobbying and health care disparities who take any applicant with a pulse.