Personal Statement Questions

[golfguy510]

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Looking for a little advice from you PS editors:

Should I include my desire to get my MBA during an MD/MBA program? My reason of doing so it to have a leg up and some valuable skills to one day work as an administrator. I wish to practice medicine and that is my goal, but I also hold a lot of valuable leadership and business skills that could be effectively used in an administration position whether that be a COO position or Chief of Surgery etc.

Open to any comments about whether this would be advantageous and set me apart from other applicants or wether it could be detrimental.

 

[OhHey]

Sure you can. You should write your ps in a way that it makes all your ECs and life experience fit together under a theme or lesson. If Admin is a theme then you can mention u desire to pursue an md/mba. But I personally don't think it will set you apart so much as your larger theme would.. but it could be a good detail to add. But that's all it is.. a detail that supports something larger. There are so many others who want an MBA like u.. last note: keep in mind different schools like different things in apps. The way I wrote my essay.. my editors said some schools will hate it while others will love it. My results showed this to be true.

 

[bobodylan41]

Just tell the story about it came to be that you want to be doctor. if the business aspect of medicine is something that attracted you then you definitely mention it.
you should probably only apply to school that do a MD/MBA though

 

[nysegop]

You can, but only if you apply to programs that have a combined MD/MBA, because they won't think you're a serious applicant if you write in your personal statement that you want an MBA to a program that doesn't have one.

 

[OhHey]

You can, but only if you apply to programs that have a combined MD/MBA, because they won't think you're a serious applicant if you write in your personal statement that you want an MBA to a program that doesn't have one.

Most, if not all, schools let students take time off to pursue a dual degree at another school. So the OP could do an MBA regardless of what school s/he matriculates to. But I agree that it may turn some med schools off...esp I'd the adcom reader doesn't really care for it.

 

[nysegop]

Most, if not all, schools let students take time off to pursue a dual degree at another school. So the OP could do an MBA regardless of what school s/he matriculates to. But I agree that it may turn some med schools off...esp I'd the adcom reader doesn't really care for it.

Some people don't like the MBA program because they think medicine shouldn't be "businessized". Personally I disagree, but whatever. It's an industry whether we like it or not.

 

[golfguy510]

Thank you all so much for the great advice! I will certainly make edits to my PS to reflect those opinions. Best of luck to you.

 

[anguisette]

Personally, I wouldn't mention that unless it's a big part of your motivation for why you want to be a physician or the rest of your app screams interest in admin. Save it for the secondary essays that ask about your specific interest in a school or what you see yourself doing in 10, 20 years.