MBA Serves as Bridge Between Healthcare Experience and Management Opportunities

You've worked in healthcare for years, and are ready to move into management. An MBA can help you acquire the business knowledge needed to be competitive in healthcare management.

By Karen Lawson
karen.lawson@mba-business-schools.com
MBA-business-schools Columnist

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects rapid job growth in healthcare management over the next several years. New technology, advances in medical treatments, and new models for healthcare organizations contribute to the need for administrators and managers with a strong background in healthcare. If you want to advance your career in healthcare, you can combine your clinical background with an MBA degree to qualify for the job you want.

Healthcare administrators may function either as specialists within a department or clinical discipline such as surgery, therapy, or nursing, records, or they may work as generalists and oversee the operations of an entire facility or medical practice. As medical practices and hospitals grow, they need knowledgeable management teams that can establish business policies and make day-to-day decisions in areas such as human resources, finance, and facilities management.

An MBA degree offers the training to accomplish these and other management tasks. Your MBA program may include courses in business and management, supervision, organizational behavior, and finance and economics. Some MBA degree programs can be completed entirely online, while others offer a combination of online and traditional classroom learning.

An MBA degree is a mark of achievement that can qualify you for desirable opportunities in management. If you are an experienced healthcare provider, your knowledge of patient care and healthcare policies and practices can be a big plus when you apply for management positions.

Your MBA can help you achieve your goal of moving into healthcare administration, and even executive leadership. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level, an MBA will give you the training you need to advance.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Karen Lawson is a freelance writer whose interests include topics in higher education and the humanities. She holds an MA degree in English from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Posted on February 26, 2007 at 01:56 PM

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