Executive MBA Programs

Are you a Kolkata based young doctor who is not quite happy with the way his/her career is shaping up? Do you feel that you lack the essential management skills? If so then this is an article for you…

If you are a doctor with a graduate degree in your name, and want to increase your prospects in your trade, then you probably might be thinking of pursuing a master degree. The most preferred post graduate degrees opted by most doctors are MD or MS. These degrees are known to provide a more in-depth knowledge to the doctors in their field. These degrees allow the doctors to specialize and thus better their career prospects in the field of medicine.
 
However off late there are many doctors who are pursuing MBA as a post graduate degree. Although not a very popular choice among most doctors at present yet it cannot be denied that, MBA is gradually gaining importance among doctors who are keen to shift towards the management side of medicine. Doctors who are pursuing a management degree are finding great jobs in the areas of Hospital Development and Administration or Medical Product development and management. These are some of the jobs that place utmost responsibility on the part of managers and hence are placed on the top list when grading jobs in the medical field.  They are well paying as well and this is a reason why many doctors are gradually shifting to this field. Also, doctors who have a management degree need not necessarily quit their medical practice, and this is probably another major reason why many doctors are opting for an MBA.

Thus, if medical students want to pursue a management degree from the best MBA School Kolkata, they can do so for the following 2 reasons:

1. They do not want to stay in the medical field anymore and want to shift to a totally new field in which their medical history holds no importance. Management gives a completely new scope to everyone and hence can be pursued without much ado.
2. They have a good experience and practice in the field of medicine and believe that they will be able to work better at the management level of the hospital or medicine, where their management degree as well as medical background will hold as much importance for being a good manager.

It is precisely for this reason that most foreign universities have now introduced an integrated MD/ MBA degree which will help the students become better managers in the field of medicine. But in case you are more interested in clinical research and in-depth knowledge of medicine, then perhaps an MD/ MS degree will be better for you.

 In the west there are Master degrees in Public Health Care and also Executive MBA programs for doctors that help widen the knowledge and scope of doctors in the field of medicine. The foreign MBA programs for doctors are intended to make them better trained and educated to handle any situation or emergency that can arise in the field of medicine. Doctors are also trained and encouraged to start public healthcare programs and organizations to better the state of the under-privileged and needy in order to support a good cause.

In India such programs are not yet in vogue but it has been seen that various top schools, including top business schools in Kolkata are having an increasing number of doctor applicants every year.