MPH in Health Policy a mistake for someone with a background in medicine?

[shayy]

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I am really interested in getting an MPH in policy (I already have my medical degree) and I have a friend who finished an MPH in policy from Harvard (also after finishing med school) but was unable to find employment!!!? Are business/law backgrounds preferred for policy? Am I totally mistaken to have chosen this path and should switch concentrations??

 

[EpiWin]

I wouldn't be concerned just yet, not least because you applied for an MPH in Epidemiology in the first place and haven't even started yet! I'd say that business and law are not preferred, but it just seems that way because business and law are degrees whose primary purpose is to prepare you for articulating and implementing policy, and thus their graduates are overrepresented. Think about medicine, you're being trained to help patients not muse about policy, but your insight into healthcare and medicine are just as critical.

I admit I don't know anything about your friend, but my gut instinct is that he's just on an unlucky streak right now and will find employment soon with his credentials.

 

[shayy]

Thanks for your reply... I actually applied for Epi only at Hopkins, I applied for Policy at every other school. (Thats why I had been asking if it was possible to switch concentrations...)