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Old Posted Feb 8, 2023, 8:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Docere View Post
The origin of physicians getting doctor's degrees goes back to 18th century Scotland when medical faculties decided to grant the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

That practice spread to North America.

In England, they still got the MB/MBBS. But physicians are called doctor as a matter of courtesy (but oddly surgeons are not).

Medical education was quite uneven until the early 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report

As for law, the LL.B. was a second-entry degree until the 1960s in much of the US. Interestingly Yale was among the last to switch to the J.D.

Canada kept granting the LL.B. until the 2000s, even though it followed the American pattern of law being a second-entry degree.
I don't think the LL.B. was universally a second-entry degree. That's why the J.D. was adopted:

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After the 1930s, the LL.B. and the J.D. degrees co‑existed in some American law schools. Some law schools, especially in Illinois and the Midwest, awarded both (like Marquette University, beginning in 1926), conferring J.D. degrees only to those with a bachelor's degree (as opposed to two or three years of college before law school), and those who met a higher academic standard in undergraduate studies, finishing a thesis in their third year of law school.[60] Because the J.D. degree was no more advantageous for bar admissions or for employment, the vast majority of Marquette students preferred to seek the LL.B. degree.[60]

As more law students entered law schools with college degrees in the 1950s and 1960s, a number of law schools may have introduced the J.D. to encourage law students to complete their undergraduate degrees.[60] As late as 1961, there were still 15 ABA-accredited law schools in the United States which awarded both LL.B. and J.D. degrees. Thirteen of the 15 were located in the Midwest, which may indicate regional variations in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor
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