Why are scientific and medical training so different?
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Physics is identical with Natural Philosophy; always has been.
As various branches of Physics specialized they have come to be recognized as separate disciplines in their own right. The Engineering disciplines on the other hand evolve more directly from Civil and Military Engineering, as those have expanded into areas of newer science, spawning separate specialized disciplines.
Similarly the theoretical life science disciplines have evolved out of specializations of Biology, while the practical life sciences have evolved from specializations of (Human and Veterinary) Medicine and Surgery. As both original inspirations have expanded and spawned overlaps have developed.
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There was a time when all of the sciences were referred to as "Natural Philosophy", and it was quite possible for an educated gentelman to keep up with the latest developments in everything.
However, when you compound hundreds of years of "latest developments", that no longer becomes possible, and a meer human being has to specialize. So now we have Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Medicine, etc.
Are the exact divisions in the fields somewhat artificial, historical, and abitrary? Yup. But you have to draw a line somewhere.
In particular, I see the relationship between Medicine and Biology very much like the relationship between Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (and of Physics and Electrical Engineering, etc). One is much more focused on research and learning new things, while the other is nessecarily more focused on getting things actually working well in the real world. Yes, there's significant overlap there. In fact there has to be for any useful advances to be made. But they are still different disciplines with different priorities.
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