Originally Posted by Primate

Two separate questions.

MDs can use an MBA for a variety of things - running a practice, admin at a hospital, running a lab/department more effectively (this is one of the serious outages in medicine - many MDs seem to be poor managers of people and $$), etc.

MD's with an MBA can contribute to the corporate world in a great number of ways. Note, however, that I'm taking this to mean that one is no longer in clinical medicine and is rather in business, per se. In this way, one could be in pharma, biotech, consulting, VC, health care, insurance, etc., and in just about any function in which you could find an MBA.

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