Why do doctors do MBA?

[Apurv]

Why do doctors do MBA?

Why do some doctors leave the scalpel for corporate boardrooms? PaGaLGuY.com tries to figure out by chatting up with a few.

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[reachmonil]

Why do Docs take up MBA?
The answers in the article seem pretty cliched, something which any other Engineer or BMS student persues MBA for.

Lets look at it this way, 'Are the Indian B-schools ready for training Doctors? Are they ready to cater to the growing Indian Health Care management sector?'

Since the article seems to conjour around the Doc->MBA route in India, my worry is larger, 'Aren't the doctors making in a rush-hush decision to enter the bandwagon in India?' This so because the differentiating factor for them lies in the opportunities mushrooming in the Indian Health Care segment, and unfortunately, none of the B-schools in India offer a comprehensive Healthcare management major!

That said and done, is it that large a difference between a medicine graduate and a gradute from any other background in the HealthCare management sector that the medicine graduates are preferred? Beats me.



PS: When will Sonam start threads for articles she publishes?

[ultra lord]

Originally Posted by reachmonil

Why do Docs take up MBA?
The answers in the article seem pretty cliched, something which any other Engineer or BMS student persues MBA for.

Lets look at it this way, 'Are the Indian B-schools ready for training Doctors? Are they ready to cater to the growing Indian Health Care management sector?'

Since the article seems to conjour around the Doc->MBA route in India, my worry is larger, 'Aren't the doctors making in a rush-hush decision to enter the bandwagon in India?' This so because the differentiating factor for them lies in the opportunities mushrooming in the Indian Health Care segment, and unfortunately, none of the B-schools in India offer a comprehensive Healthcare management major!

That said and done, is it that large a difference between a medicine graduate and a gradute from any other background in the HealthCare management sector that the medicine graduates are preferred? Beats me.

PS: When will Sonam start threads for articles she publishes?

The article is an attempt to cover the increasing and interesting trends of Doctors doing MBA. Majority of us have an unspoken reason to do a MBA and doctors are no different its all about the money honey. Agreed B-schools are yet to develop a comprehensive course for healthcare management but so are many other courses like Retail and Family Business, which are in the nascent stage and will take time and effort from B-schools to make them mainline courses.

Medicine grads are considered to have a better understanding of the health care sector and hence are preferred; I know this is a point of discussion. The objective of writing the article was to state the facts so that such relevant discussions take place.

In no way is the article in support or disagreement of doctors doing MBA its just about stating information and facts. Anyways thanks Monil for bringing up such valid points it will ultimately benefit the junta... that is what PG is for!

As for starting threads for articles is concerned its flexible, But I shall definitely keep your point in mind next time.

Regards,
Sonam

[abhinavakhilesh]

Hey, im a doc too, and am taking the CAT this year, i believe the main reason for docs taking up MBA is not just because of money, c'mon guys its very easy nowadays for docs to appear for USMLE or AusLEX and migrate to these shores, and earn much more than a management graduate ever earns [remember, in all the developed countries, docs are the higest paid community]. i guess dissatisfaction stems from the thankless work environment and lack of creative opportunities in this field. one has to really slog it out in life to make it to the top, plus life is too hectic, ... i hear ppl complaining about long work hours and having to sit in their "air conditioned" office chambers in front of the computers...... well fellas, you havent seen the life of a doc yet, in the guv hospitals, ppl work more than 48hrs at a stretch, wiithout time even to catch forty winks......//
the physical exhaustion compounds the mental one which is disastrous for health....//
i firmly believe that most [and by most i definitely dont mean all]; docs who go for an mba are looking for a better work environment more than anything else,,,,,
i guess docs have an advantage that they are preferred by healthcare co.s, but u tend to overlook another advantage, none of the other graduates ae used to the workload of an mba course, while docs cruise thru comfortably cuz they are used to such gruelling study schedules for the past 5and a half years........ hope that clears a lot of doubts.....
stay beautiful
cheers//~~

[candybean$$$$]

Nice article

Seems now people who keep asking me why the hell do I want to do MBA can shut up

No, m not a doc but have been in to hard core med so it generally comes as a surprise to people and of course I invite unwanted gyaan, when people tell me that I wont be able to do it cos of QA and DI

Its just important to believe in yourself

[white_raven]

nothgin against the docs doing MBA but ouur B schools dont really have the infrastructure, the faciltities or the courses to support them

[nanosec]

sorry posted in wrong section-deleted

[nanosec]

Great Article

[sanio]

The good part of the article is the live opinions of docs in the corporate bandwagon which gives more insights about the topic. The topic-'What is the logic docs possess to pursue degree like MBA' has been handled well in the article.
I am in agreement with one of the views that docs have logic in their every deeds. This is my own experience when I worked with doctors for one of the marketing activities. Even though they did not know the models of consumer behavior they were logical enough to think and infer the desired data a marketing person needed from a marketing activity. >>
Before going ahead and thinking about whether Indian B-schools are ready to handle and groom this new breed of MBA aspirants, what is their role in industry, is it job-dissatisfaction or no-thanks work environment causing docs to do MBA, why don't we touch the mindset of doctors who would like to do MBA and we try to figure out the root cause and then relate the same with other variables.>>
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Any doctor or person, who aspires to do an MBA, possesses three types of skills- managerial, operational and team-work/social. >>
The operational skill is the technical knowledge which a doc pursue over a course-curriculum and this period trains him to work under rigorous stress, develops ability to go to root of any problem, creates an attitude of being highly knowledgable; which turn him to develop a mindset of creating a logical base for every aspect involved in his course and rest of life. >>
Till this time he has developed other skills as well- managerial and social, but these skills differs from person to person since these are related to their social grooming, family background, childhood nurturing. >>
So you will find a doc in a same shoe where other MBA aspirants are wherein he wants to imbibe/nurture/refine his managerial / social skills like any other MBA aspirant. >>
I think this is the root cause which becomes impulse to any decision to be an MBA. >>
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Post-which consider the variables like monetary aspect, no-thanks environment, insecurity to perform, safer environment, leveraging the medical knowledge these are the specific problems canalized from the main cause. >>

[pankaj4friends]

ya hi nice discussion on
first not all docs leave the field coz only of working hrs
1.getting into post graduation is the most diff thing on earth(or so i think )for u have to compete with people who r reading for 12 -13 hrs daily sitting at home after mbbs
and believe me the amount of mugging for this exams is nauseating
2.abt loads of opputinities in usa and australia that is bunk (i am sorry for the choice of the word).
3.it is abt the money honey is rt if a computer engineer can take up a mba in hr or such with no love lost for his subject so can docs

reallly the fact is we docs live in such a cocooon or a closed knit environment tht the society thinks tht "doctor hai !!!"
and hearing it we tend to believe it somewhere deep inside and hence the stiff resistance to explore

as for me i am a fresh grad aka mbbs and am taking the cat this year
and if u ask me why then like most things in life most of us dont have a answer or so many reasons tht i have to be a shakespear to pen all those conflicting thots
but as of now i have prepared to shoot off 100 reasons of doing a mba and hope it is a best seller
regards