ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some initial ideas that may be of interest and warrant further exploration, either pre-, peri- or post-Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Recruiters frequent business schools to identify top talent, known as a ‘milk round’. Doctors with MBAs will inevitably be among those that attract headhunters’ attention. A higher research degree is particularly important for trainees who aspire to work in top teaching hospitals or have future academic career paths. Academia relies on an ability to attract funding to survive. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli graduated as a doctor in 2000 and is currently doing a distance MBA at Robert Kennedy College, Switzerland. He describes a medical degree as ‘a licence to do anything people want to in life’. In large technology companies, such as Google and Cisco, there are specific healthcare departments. The drawbacks of consultancy are that projects are often short-term.
