"Professional degree" is juxtaposed with "research degree". So if you say it's a professional degree, you're basically agreeing it's not a research degree...
In my country at least MDs are not required to be researchers and the degree has no novelty requirements. They're required to be competent medical professionals.
There are countries where the base medical degree is the MBBS and MD is a graduate research doctorate. That's not what I'm talking about here.
I'm not talking about "difficulty", by the way. Just the differences between the degrees.
"Professional degree" is juxtaposed with "research degree". So if you say it's a professional degree, you're basically agreeing it's not a research degree...
In my country at least MDs are not required to be researchers and the degree has no novelty requirements. They're required to be competent medical professionals.
There are countries where the base medical degree is the MBBS and MD is a graduate research doctorate. That's not what I'm talking about here.
I'm not talking about "difficulty", by the way. Just the differences between the degrees.