Editing Doctor (title) (section)

==Doctor as a noun==
Throughout much of the academic world, the term ''Doctor'' refers to someone who has earned a doctoral degree (highest degree) from a university.<ref name="OED Doctor">{{cite web |url= https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doctor |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161224233939/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doctor |url-status= dead |archive-date= 24 December 2016 |title=Doctor |website= Oxford Living Dictionaries |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date= 24 December 2016}}</ref> This is normally the [[Doctor of Philosophy]], abbreviated PhD (sometimes Ph.D. in North America) from the Latin ''Philosophiae Doctor'' or DPhil from its English name,<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OP5ePl7i5EIC&pg=PA125 |page=125 |title= The History of the University of Oxford: The twentieth century |quote= Very few persons had received even an honorary DLitt by 1916 when the Reverend E. M. Walker, Senior Tutor of Queen's, proposed, as the ''Oxford Magazine'' put it, that the University 'should divert the stream' of American aspirants to the German universities' degree of ''philosophiae doctor'' by opening the DLitt to persons offering a suitable dissertation nine terms after graduation. Apart from a successful move led by Sidney Ball, philosophy tutor at St John's, to distinguish the proposed arrangement from both the DLitt and the German PhD by adopting the English title 'doctor of philosophy' (DPhil), the scheme meet with little opposition |chapter= The Arts and Social Studies, 1914–1939 |author= Robert Currie |editor= Brian Harrison |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |date=1994|isbn=9780198229742 }}</ref> or equivalent research doctorates at level 8 of the [[International Standard Classification of Education]] 2011 classifications (ISCED 2011) or level 6 of the ISCED 1997 classifications. Beyond academia (but specifically in the anglophone world, Italy, and France), ''Doctor'' as a noun normally refers to a physician,<ref name="OED Doctor"/> who would usually hold a qualification at level 7 of ISCED 2011/level 5 of ISCED 1997 such as the British [[MBBS]] or the American [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] or [[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine|DO]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://uis.unesco.org/en/isced-mappings |title= ISCED Mappings |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |access-date= 24 December 2016|date= 22 November 2016 }}</ref>