International travelers, particularly Americans, are sometimes surprised to learn that many physicians around the world don’t have an “M.D.” degree.
The reason for this is that upon graduation from medical school many physicians around the world receive an MBBS or MBChB–degrees bestowed under traditional British medical education. To complicate matters further, in the US and abroad a physician’s name is often followed by a number of other initials, such as FRCP (Lond), which denote membership in an honorary organization of physicians.
