QUOTE(Ritzbitzz @ Jul 4 2018, 04:46 AM)
Alternative pathways after MBBS/MD
As the title above,
I’m a recently graduated medical student, oversea ,
Self finance. Not on scholarship.
After went through all the practical in hospital
I felt myself hating the job day by day.
And now that i have graduated,
I dont feel like going into Housemanship and thinking into further my study. Im thinking into taking bussiness degree/master
Question is,
1. Whether i can apply MBA with my medical degree?
2. Any other opinion regarding alternative carreer/study pathway for medical degree holder
Im not hating the subject- medical, i love it, i hate the working environment
Any input is highly appreciated. Thank you
This question has been asked many times in this forum in various guises. I'll repeat what I wrote before to them. If you are in a profession or job which has professional qualifications, it is probably better to go for those professional qualifications as they are more focused for that particular profession or business. They are probably more recognised or accepted than a MBA which is a general qualification. Besides, MBAs are a dime a dozen now, almost every university seems to have them. To stand out from such proliferation of MBAs, they have to be very well recognised and distinctive, and that means expensive MBAs as those universities can and will charge the earth for them.
I've known two colleagues who spent a fortune on their MBAs. One was a Nanyang Technlogical MBA and the other a Singapore Management University MBA. Both are highly ranked and some of the best in Asia. Both costs around the region of SGD70+k in all. Yet, after completing those MBAs and some years later, they haven't been able to leverage on their MBAs. In fact, they are still in the same profession and positions they were in originally. They were disappointed as they had hoped to be promoted or find a better position with the MBAs but unfortunately, they were not able to. In the end, they just accepted it and said, and this is probably more important for them, that they had learned a lot more about various subjects that they had been interested in.
The one person I know who did managed to leverage on her MBA was a friend who quit her job and took a financial loan of USD200k to study for a Wharton MBA, which is a 2 years' master. Wharton MBA is consistently ranked Top 3 in any rankings for best MBA globally. It has often overtaken Harvard's MBA as the best MBA available. After finishing her MBA, she managed to get a well paying consulting job in USA and she hopes to pay off her loan in a few years.