Editing Doctor (title) (section)

====Bangladesh====
In [[Bangladesh]], use of the title of doctor (or Dr) is permitted for PhD degree holders and registered medical practitioners. For registered medical practitioners, only MBBS and BDS degree holders are allowed to use the title and be called "medical doctors".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/bangla_all_sections.php?id=1065|title=Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council Act, 2010. |language=bn |at=29 |publisher=Govt. Of The People Republic Of Bangladesh|access-date=16 December 2016}}</ref> Registered veterinary practitioners may use the title after earning a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree. However, registered homeopathic practitioners also use the title of doctor even though, according to the Homeopathic Practitioners Ordinance 1983, they are only permitted to use "homeopath".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/print_sections_all.php?id=649|title=THE BANGLADESH HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE, 1983 (ORDINANCE NO. XLI OF 1983). |publisher=Govt. Of The People Republic Of Bangladesh|access-date=16 December 2016}}</ref> Physiotherapy has no separate council and no act of parliament at present permits the use of the title for physiotherapist, but the [[High Court of Bangladesh|High Court]] has given an interim order that permits physiotherapy graduates to use the title, pending the formation of a separate council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/physiotherapy-bangladesh-ailing-all-along-1991573|title=Physiotherapy in Bangladesh: Ailing all along|date=9 November 2020 |publisher=The Daily Star|access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref> According to the Bangladesh Unani & Ayurvedic Practitioners Ordinance 1983, practitioners of the Unani system are called  "Tabib" or "Hakim" and practitioners of Ayurvedic system are called "Vaid" or "Kabiraj"; both are prohibited from using the title of doctor.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/print_sections_all.php?id=645 |title=BANGLADESH UNANI AND AYURVEDIC PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE, 1983 (ORDINANCE NO. XXXII OF 1983) |publisher=Govt. Of The People Republic Of Bangladesh |access-date=16 December 2016 }}</ref> Currently, medical practitioners having an MBBS degree or dental surgeons having a BDS are legally permitted to use Dr as a prefix; its use by other medical practitioners remains controversial.