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Hey All,
I've talked to multiple people about this in person and I would love some more perspectives.
I know that I don't want to do ONLY clinical medicine. I've found this past year of MS1 that I really miss being more quantitative and "engineer-y." (Undergrad in ChemE) I'm doing an internship this summer in HC consulting/management and it's really neat.
Anyway, my concern is that I don't see much practical value to the MBA in terms of ROI or skills gained--I'm sure engineering imparted in me all the accounting, math, and critical thinking skills. Maybe there's something to be said for the "management skills" you learn with an MBA, but I tend to be good with managing people.
However, the consistent narrative seems to be that the MBA fills the role of credentials/credibility. Apparently, the MBA is becoming nigh ubiquitous at the healthcare management level. The non-MBA examples I can find all rose up through the ranks of academic medicine--that is something I am certainly not interested in.
Bottom line, do people like me need the MBA? Are there ways to get around the MBA "requirement" when applying for management positions/jobs? (experience?) Even hospital-specific consulting/entrepreneurship seems to be aided by having an MBA, simply because people trust your management experience more thanks to that one year of B-school. (I feel like I'm answering my own question here)
I've talked to multiple people about this in person and I would love some more perspectives.
I know that I don't want to do ONLY clinical medicine. I've found this past year of MS1 that I really miss being more quantitative and "engineer-y." (Undergrad in ChemE) I'm doing an internship this summer in HC consulting/management and it's really neat.
Anyway, my concern is that I don't see much practical value to the MBA in terms of ROI or skills gained--I'm sure engineering imparted in me all the accounting, math, and critical thinking skills. Maybe there's something to be said for the "management skills" you learn with an MBA, but I tend to be good with managing people.
However, the consistent narrative seems to be that the MBA fills the role of credentials/credibility. Apparently, the MBA is becoming nigh ubiquitous at the healthcare management level. The non-MBA examples I can find all rose up through the ranks of academic medicine--that is something I am certainly not interested in.
Bottom line, do people like me need the MBA? Are there ways to get around the MBA "requirement" when applying for management positions/jobs? (experience?) Even hospital-specific consulting/entrepreneurship seems to be aided by having an MBA, simply because people trust your management experience more thanks to that one year of B-school. (I feel like I'm answering my own question here)
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