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Can you become a psychologist with a med degree?

i'm thinking of a path related to psychology/neuropsychology, will a med degree work for that
no. you can become a psychiatrist though.
What’s your career goal?

Is it academic (teaching) or practice (actually being a psychologist in clinical setting)

because the two subjects you’ve mentioned, esp the second one, is very ‘specialist’ for lack of a better word
To become a professional psychologist (e.g. clinical psychologist, forensic psychologist) in the UK you need a BPS accredited psychology degree (which may be an undergraduate BA/BSc or a postgraduate conversion masters course) and then to do the requisite professional doctorate (e.g. the DClinPsych for clinical psychology). Be aware that the DClinPsych is extremely competitive and successful applicants often have years of clinical psychology work experience and multiple masters degrees or a PhD (I imagine the parallel programmes for e.g. forensic psychology would be similar).

So a medical degree by itself would not suffice. You could do a medical degree then a conversion masters, but you would still need relevant clinical psychology work experience and possibly further academic study/research in the field to distinguish yourself.

As noted there are other medical specialities that may work with clinical psychologists or neuropsychologists, such as psychiatrists, neurologists, or neurophysiologists (the latter two probably less so than the former?). Any of those you can go into with a medical degree, although the nature of their work will be different.

However if you know you want to go down the professional psychologist route I would recommend you look for a BPS accredited psychology course to start with. There are some available as joint honours with neuroscience that are BPS accredited, e.g. KCL. Also a lot of the "top" psychology departments are pretty neuroscience heavy (e.g. Cambridge, UCL) and very scientific as a result anyway.
(edited 2 years ago)
Look at degrees in Brain Sciences or joint subject Neuroscience-Psychology courses.

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