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Can you get a good job with only MD/MBA , without doing any residency ...
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Maybe as a hospital administrator, and you certainly are entitled to be addressed as "Doctor", but I have a feeling you won't be able to practice/get a liscence. It may be dependent upon the state.
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How much can I make ?
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Without a license you are eligible for jobs you could have gotten with any healthcare degree: working for insurance companies (reviewing applications and denials), maybe reviewing records for lawyers...
There are a lot of them here in the pharma world. I'd say you can make between 30,000 and 5 million a year (depending on experience). One of the people sitting on the board of a big pharma company I've worked with makes 2 million and is a MD/MBA (Harvard guy) that dropped out of residency. Learned during residency he wasn't all that interested in seeing patients (but, he is "wicked" smart). The average is probably somewhere in the mid/low 100s, which is what you'd expect for most people with experience in this world (even with a bachelors) or those with an top tier MBA/MHA. I broke the 100k mark with a bachelors + 5 yrs of experience.
I agree with the assessment that most of these jobs are probably open to you with just an MBA or MHA or a degree to that effect. Some maybe open to you with a bachelors degree. I think maybe the only exception would be is someone that analyzes safety data for clinical trials (we have a few MDs that do stats stuff that didn't do residency). I don't actually know any DO/MBAs (but there is a bias against DOs in big pharma so DOs are rare to come by). For the record, since this is SDN, I know a lot of DOs at hospitals and otherwise and am working on my AACOMAS application currently (I'll be ecstatic just to practice medicine).
I agree with the assessment that most of these jobs are probably open to you with just an MBA or MHA or a degree to that effect. Some maybe open to you with a bachelors degree. I think maybe the only exception would be is someone that analyzes safety data for clinical trials (we have a few MDs that do stats stuff that didn't do residency). I don't actually know any DO/MBAs (but there is a bias against DOs in big pharma so DOs are rare to come by). For the record, since this is SDN, I know a lot of DOs at hospitals and otherwise and am working on my AACOMAS application currently (I'll be ecstatic just to practice medicine).
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