Best residency for someone who wants to go into administration eventually

[DropkickMurphy]

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OK, so I was having a discussion over lunch today with some med student friends of mine (one of whom is a member here) about their plans after graduation. One of them brought up that he wants to get into hospital administration (as if was not obviously likely given one of his bachelor's degrees is in health care administration and that he also has an MBA ). So that brought up this discussion of what residency he is planning on pursuing. He said pathology, but one of the other med students said that something more "mainstream" (her words not mine) and with more patient contact would be a better choice. So I figured I would see what you all thought of this. If someone plans to get into administrative work, what is the best route after medical school? Internal medicine? A subspecialty? Surgery? Path? EM?

 

[beary]

Internal medicine? A subspecialty? Surgery? Path? EM?

There are folks high up in the administration at my school at each of these specialties. My impression (because of this diversity) is that they don't want to overly represent one department. Therefore, I don't think it really matter what residency someone does - they should just do something they like and will be successful.

 

[BKN]

OK, so I was having a discussion over lunch today with some med student friends of mine (one of whom is a member here) about their plans after graduation. One of them brought up that he wants to get into hospital administration (as if was not obviously likely given one of his bachelor's degrees is in health care administration and that he also has an MBA ). So that brought up this discussion of what residency he is planning on pursuing. He said pathology, but one of the other med students said that something more "mainstream" (her words not mine) and with more patient contact would be a better choice. So I figured I would see what you all thought of this. If someone plans to get into administrative work, what is the best route after medical school? Internal medicine? A subspecialty? Surgery? Path? EM?

He's wasting his time and money if he wants to be an administrator. 7 more years of training, $100K debt and about $1 million is lost wages and his goal is to do something he's qualified to do now? 😕

 

[DropkickMurphy]

I know....that's kind of what I said. Apparently he got the MBA before going to medical school because he hated the idea of being in business and then went to medical school and then decided that he wanted to be in charge of a hospital.

 

[dr_almondjoy_do]

I have a friend that works in hospital admin and he said that the top positions normally go to the physicians that have the admin experience. There are many high ranking levels in hospital administration, i.e: nursing, social work, executive office, finance, operations, medical education, etc, etc... but I think the VP, CEO, CFO, COO positions go to physicians after all the family members of the owners get their pick..lol