Effect of an MBA on Residency Application Process?

i_wanna_be_Brown
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:16:27 +0000

Internal medicine maybe, but PhDs aren’t exactly the straight up golden ticket into residencies like they used to be:

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An MBA is probably not a huge boost at your level. If a hospital really wanted to, it could and would probably pay for a staff member to get an MBA in preparation for a larger administrative role, and there are many high level hospital admins with no MBA. I certainly don’t think it would hurt, but I was under the impression that MBAs don’t really teach you much and are more about networking. You’d probably be better off doing a year of research during medical school (which could easily tie to administration) than doing an MBA.