MD/MBA, How to approach it?

input1010
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:58:46 +0000

I am still very interested in medicine, and I am on the track to med school due to my MedStart scholarship. I still want to go to med school but I looked at career opportunities with an MD/MBA, specifically pharmaceutical management, and I think a career like that would be more fitting for my aspirations. So I do still want to go to med school and I am following through with my pre-med requirements, but I also want to gain credentials and experience that will help me be a competitive applicant to b-school in the future as well.

I was wondering what kind of work experience b-schools look at? For example, if I worked as a paid research assistant at a stem cell research and development firm, would that be a legitimate work experience for b-schools? I know it may be an obvious question, but I do not know too much about b-schools and want to know more. I know that med schools dont really discriminate against certain work experiences and extracurricular experiences, whether science related or not, so I was curious if b-schools see it the same way