To Goanet - CORNEL DACOSTA wrote: >Dr Rajan >I have to disagree with you strongly that the "MBBS is >a walk in the park".
I had included the "by comparison" which you have forgotten to cite above. Therefore, you are disagreeing strongly with something you allege I have written but actually haven't. >The PhD is long in depth and >narrow in width generally. The MBBS is incredibly wide >but as one becomes a specialist, one does focus more >narrowly in a given area. Restricting myself to the American university system, and specifically to the programmes in engineering and the physical sciences, a PhD candidate is expected to have already acquired sufficient width in his field (the preliminary exams are intended to test this) before undertaking specialized research. This topic is only of peripheral relevance to Goanet, therefore this will be my last contribution to this particular thread. r
