<p>Are there positions like Dr. Cutty's out there in the real world?</p>
<p>hehe, absolutely. She is the head of medicine...</p>
<p>Much of Cuddy's job involves dealing with House, who is an absurd character. So no.</p>
<p>The title she possesses -- unlike House's -- is a real title. Her job as we see it in the show does not resemble the actual job.</p>
<p>I've seen the show a few times. Dr. Cutty appears to be in the role of the hospital administrator. However, she does not seem to be much in the role.</p>
<p>One question I have is the educational requirements for that type of position. I would have thought that an MBA with a masters in healthcare administration would be more appropriate. Do administrators have MD degree's or am I missing something?</p>
<p>You mean babysitting? lol</p>
<p>I believe Cuddy's title is Chief of Medicine (same as Kelso in Scrubs, similar to Weber in Grey's). This job, obviously, is held by an MD. Dual-degrees are helpful but not common for such a position, as it is dominantly administrative.</p>
<p>Guess that shows I don't watch the show much. The other shows you mentioned I've never seen. I thought Cutty was the hospitol administrator, not Chief of Medicine. Makes sense now.</p>
<p>Be aware that there are positions like you've described in which the business side of things take precedent and you will indeed find individuals with no medical training in those positions.</p>
<p>bluedevilmike,</p>
<p>I actually found a couple hospitals that have "diagnostic medicine."</p>
<p>Weird...</p>
<p>house mentions in one episode he is board certified in infectious diseases. i dont think house ever claims to have gone to residency in "diagnostic medicine," but thats just the title on his office, or the department within the hospital.</p>
<p>House did residencies in infectious diseases and nephrology, but you can see obviously that those are not the only "specialties" he practices. House's faculty appointment is in the hospital's Department of Diagnostic Medicine, which is not a real specialty.</p>
<p>bluedevilmike,</p>
<p>Diagnostic medicine, while extremely extremely rare, does actually exist. WUSTL has a department for it, if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>Hm. New to me. Any chance it's actually just what they call the radiology department?</p>
<p>No, actually it's not. I honestly didn't believe diagnostic medicine existed until I did some Googling and came up with some departments. Like I said, it's very very rare, but they do have them.</p>
<p>My girlfriend works over at Jules Stein over at UCLA, and she mentions a "diagnostician" who comes in sometimes when the regular docs get stumped. But that may be something different, as I'm not really sure how they do things over there.</p>