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No successful stories. Everyone is now broke, out of a job, and on the street.
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Some people decide to get an MBA because they are interested in opening up a private practice and would like the additional business training. An MBA can also be useful if you're interested in healthcare admin positions or in consulting work. It can also help you break into medtech industries if you're not interested in ultimately becoming a clinician.
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Why are you so unfriendly? Silly
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Check this paper out:
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When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs | AJMC
Large-scale analysis of Harvard Business School’s physician graduates yields new insights into physician-MBA career choices and the utility of these programs.
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MBA is great if you wanna go into management eventually... Many people do it.
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Check this paper out:
When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs | AJMC
Large-scale analysis of Harvard Business School’s physician graduates yields new insights into physician-MBA career choices and the utility of these programs.
Interesting paper but the sample is small (~200 MD/MBAs), the sample is limited to Harvard Business School grads, and the sample stretches back to graduates of the class of 1941. If any of those early grads were still "active" in 2016, God bless 'em.
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Haha I'll be honest, I did not actually read the paper, so thanks for pointing those things out!
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I'll be starting an MBA while in fellowship.
It makes sense for some folks, not for others.
There are a lot of good conversations on this buried in the MD/MBA subforum.
In my opinion, for the great majority, obtaining the MBA during medical school makes less sense than completing it later (i.e. closer to when you will be actually using those skills/network). 4-5+ years later, those things get stale.
Also look at your goals and juxtaposition it against the cost. Determine your odds of achieving your potential ROI. If you like those odds, take the plunge.
It makes sense for some folks, not for others.
There are a lot of good conversations on this buried in the MD/MBA subforum.
In my opinion, for the great majority, obtaining the MBA during medical school makes less sense than completing it later (i.e. closer to when you will be actually using those skills/network). 4-5+ years later, those things get stale.
Also look at your goals and juxtaposition it against the cost. Determine your odds of achieving your potential ROI. If you like those odds, take the plunge.
