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No, it doesn't mean doctors are stupid just that it's a technical pursuit and not something matching what you're expected to do in graduate circles; challenge commonly held notions and come up with knowledge of your own.
It seems to me that this is correct but then I have never been to med school. I imagine many people hold this opinion of law school as well, and they could not be more wrong, so... anyone a med student?
Yeah it used to be that anyone human sciencey would do a med degree then do research afterwards or whatever, or doctors would do research after they got sick of clinic. People like Craig Venter were pretty common (guy was a doctor, then said "i can save more lives doing science" so started working on the genome project). Now most of the research comes from people who did science degrees undergrad and postgrad. Many universities now have BSc Biomed at undergrad and postgrad levels (i'm doing my masters in Biomedical Sciences). Or something similar. Doctors still do a lot of the epidemiology though