MBA Question

[Perrotfish]

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I am going to try to convince the military to allow me to have a 1 year pause in between 2nd and 3rd year to do a 5 year combined MD/MBA program (I realize this is a longshot). I have heard rumors that the military is pushing for senior physicians who want to move into administration to have an MBA. Does anyone have a powerpoint presentation or memo stating this? I think it would help me make my case that the military does want physicians with management training.

 

[backrow]

I am going to try to convince the military to allow me to have a 1 year pause in between 2nd and 3rd year to do a 5 year combined MD/MBA program (I realize this is a longshot). I have heard rumors that the military is pushing for senior physicians who want to move into administration to have an MBA. Does anyone have a powerpoint presentation or memo stating this? I think it would help me make my case that the military does want physicians with management training.

Good luck on this, let us know how it works out for you.

 

[IgD]

I am going to try to convince the military to allow me to have a 1 year pause in between 2nd and 3rd year to do a 5 year combined MD/MBA program (I realize this is a longshot). I have heard rumors that the military is pushing for senior physicians who want to move into administration to have an MBA. Does anyone have a powerpoint presentation or memo stating this? I think it would help me make my case that the military does want physicians with management training.

Forget about it. You are going straight to the middle east. When you get back you can sign up for more payback in exchange for permission to get another degree.

 

[notdeadyet]

You're better off doing one later anyway. The value of an MBA is pretty much nil unless it's been done after acquiring pretty significant experience in the field you want to apply it in.

I can see how an MBA would be a big asset for a military officer after he'd been practicing military medicine for a while. But a rushed, one-year MBA without context isn't going to give any more meaningful knowledge than you can get out of a basket-full of well chosen books.

There have been some pretty good threads on this in the MBA/MD forums for a while. You want your MBA to be tactical and you have your research and projects focus on your professional field you have experience in. Otherwise you spend three years (or one year, in some programs) focusing on Acme and their widgets. Avoid that trap.

 

[Perrotfish]

Sooo... no one has any Navy powerpoints/documents saying an MBA is desirable for senior medical officers?

 

[NavyFP]

Sooo... no one has any Navy powerpoints/documents saying an MBA is desirable for senior medical officers?

I do, but I am not sharing. 😀

I have to dig it up, but there is a site on Navy Knowledge Online that addresses various qualifications and what you need to screen for things like command. An MBA gives you many of these quals.

 

[TheGoose]

various qualifications and what you need to screen for things like command. An MBA gives you many of these quals.

this doesnt necessarily mean that theyll let you do an MD/MBA though, they may just expect you to get it as you move through the ranks 10 years down the line...

 

[NavyFP]

this doesnt necessarily mean that theyll let you do an MD/MBA though, they may just expect you to get it as you move through the ranks 10 years down the line...

Very true.

 

[TheGoose]

whenever ive read the bio's on the higher up senior navy medical personnel (surg gen, co's hospitals, etc...) its always been that they got an MBA on their own later in their careers which helped them get up to the O6 threshold or above