<p>I know how to become a doctor already...you take the pre-reqs, take the MCAT, and apply.. Then you get your M.D from medical school.</p>
<p>But how could I mix getting a J.D into all of this without having to go to school until I'm 40?</p>
<p>There are joint MD/JD programs. Google it.</p>
<p>Is this a serious question or just one out of curiosity’s sake? If serious, I’d like you to figure out why you want both. Collecting coups (chasing prestige)? or do you really want to heal people or really have a great desire to be a lawyer when our society is bursting with unemployed lawyers?</p>
<p>There are several doctor/lawyers I know of who went to law school while working as doctors. It would seem to me (as a lawyer) that it would be easier to do med school, etc. first and then do law school. If you do a part-time (4 year) law school program, you can probably at least do some work as a doctor but if you do the 3 year program, you probably wouldn’t be able to work the first year. The MD/JDs I know are in the field of personal injury, primarily med mal.</p>
<p>I know some MD/JD’s that are in-house counsel for big Pharma. Also there is a niche field in the area of patent law regarding genome/genes/proteins, etc.</p>
<p>Patent law as it relates to genetics is a very complex and important field. If genes are allowed to be “owned” by one entity, then there will be great restrictions on the advancement of research, if scientists can’t get access to parts of the human genome without paying enormous fees. So yes, MD/JD’s can play an important role in mediating these issues. Not all MD/JD’s do med mal.</p>
<p>Well a JD is a juris doctorate so technically you can refer to yourself as a doctor if you are a lawyer.</p>