Reading online, it can take on average 9-12 years to become a certified MP
Whereas MD takes 11-12 depending on specialty
Seems like similar amount of schooling
MP salary 95-145k
MD salary 350-400k
Now MP from what I am reading usually are paid for the PhD so less debt
But ROI seems higher for MD
It can be bypassed as long as you show a clear amount of experience in science and medicine.
In my case, for instance, I did work on the cure for type II diabetes, but I also did extensive asthma research; why we have it, why those with asthma live far longer on average with fewer cardiac and pulmonary fatalities, etc. than those without it.
You actually don't need much schooling; like engineering (or martial arts), you just need to be able to back up what you say with a solid track record/the ability to prove you know your stuff on the spot, and not because a Univeristy paper says you do. That's where a lot of M.D.'s fell short.
I did an explanation on asthma and the Kreb's Cycle on demand, and a doctor said it was "too hard" to do what I do, and yet it's just high school knowledge applied correctly.
The ability to solve for x in math does not make one a great engine developer; experience does, and that is all they look for in the Medical Physicist profession in general. It's all the interviews, etc. will test you on, and all that matters on the job.
Very much like aerospace engineering.
And those ones are likely job site listings; there are ones paying multi millions, but you have to contact the company or research group directly. Indeed.com, for instance, caps at two million per year listings; Medical Physicists I know were offered much more than that.
Sort of like director roles at certain places not listed; they pay well over four million a year, in places where the most you would ever see on job sites for the places are at one point five million and you still have to dig to find them; they don't disclose those ones to the public as the first "weed-out" step.
I'm sure the top paid boxer made over a billion in gross income, but there is no indeed.com/linkedin listing for that; you have to dig to find it, and no ninth degree black-belt in karate, though more time consuming to get, will pay you that for leading karate. Same applies to medical physicists compared to the top doctors making millions; the job of the former alone pays much more than the latter alone, though there are plenty of billionaires in both fields, and the medical physicist has far more potential, all things considered, given that he has working permanent cures that he could name his price for if he wanted to.
I hope this helps; do you see why I'm quirky enough to be a medical scientist? We joke about this with each other a lot.
I found this parody funny, but Rockefeller and others _did_ pay some medical scientists to keep their mouths shut, like my ancestor. Just replace aliens with five dollar permanent and harmless working cures. It's not the weird youtube conspiracy stuff that I heard bizzare takes about. How do you suppose Rockefeller lived to be 97 with ailing health his whole life?
The best advice I can give to those who want to know the science medical expert secrets is this: if you try to find out what they are, you are wasting your time. The best way to get something some times is to not want it. Have a good attitude instead.