Doctors with MBA

What is the career scope for Doctors with MBA, will you please give me some information about the career opportunities?

[Kiran Chandar]

Doctors who go into management can find great jobs in hospital management and administration.

There are big medical electronic companies like Philips or GE which would absorb MBA grads with a background of medicine.

These companies develop products and services which can best be done by doctors.

Doctors with management background can do a phenomenal job in terms of product development and management.

After an MBA a doctor could get into one of the following industries:
Healthcare services delivery (hospitals, hospital chains)
Pharmaceutical companies
Biotech companies
Healthcare consulting
NGOs

The functional areas where you could get in are
Healthcare services delivery (hospitals, hospital chains)
Marketing and customer relations
Sales
Operations – This is where I’ve got a job now with Apollo Hyderabad
Business development

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies
Marketing and customer relations
Sales
Operations
Business development
Licensing
Discovery project management and evaluation
Medico-marketing