Effect of an MBA on Residency Application Process?

20172018MD
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:18:10 +0000

^ I do.

Can you send me a PM so I can show you the info? I don’t want to post this information online since it involves email communication between me and a director of a one year MBA program at a top 20 business school who says “they welcome MDs”

I was a business/science double major in undergrad. My medical school doesn’t offer an MD/MBA so they are willing to let me take a year off for a 1 year MBA as long as I “am in good academic standing”. I haven’t taken the GMAT yet, but since the texas match just ended and I am happy going to the school that I matched at, I can now start preparing for the GMAT.

These MBA programs that I mentioned above are literally “insert a year programs, 12 months of just MBA”. This allows you to still do research in the summers of medical school and not have to be overwhelmed by MBA classes. So it works out well, I can have all the traditional experiences of medical school, research in the summers, without stressing out about MBA classes piled on top of med school classes and my summers being overrun by MBA classes, and then I take 12 months full time to earn an MBA from a top 20 bschool.

Depending on one’s GMAT score, these schools offer lots of $$$.

Also, they waive the work experience requirement for MD students.