270.997 Doctor of Medicine Degree:
MSSNY will seek legislation to revise the New York State Education Law to provide for the automatic conferral of the degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) upon any individual who is licensed to practice medicine in the State of New York and who furnishes satisfactory evidence of completion of a medical education program in a foreign medical school which does not grant the degree Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and in which the philosophy and curriculum are deemed equivalent, as determined by the New York State Board of Regents, to those in programs leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at medical schools in the United States.
Until the statute is changed, MSSNY will urge the State Education Department to discontinue the practice of informing licensed physicians who hold an M.D. equivalent degree to remove the title “M.D.” from behind their name or face possible disciplinary action. (HOD 1993-103; Reaffirmed Council 2/21/02; Reaffirmed HOD 2013)
