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Graduates with dual training report positive effects on careers, professional lives
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Physician graduates who also received an MBA reported their dual training had positive effects on their careers and professional lives, according to study results.
Researchers evaluated survey results from 247 physician graduates of the Wharton School MBA Program in Health Care Management at the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2010.
According to the results, 46.2% of participants reported clinical practice as their primary work sector within their first decade after graduation, compared with 39.5% of participants in the 11 to 20 years after their graduation and 19.2% of participants at 21 to 30 years after graduation.
Graduates reported mostly positive attitudes and noted benefits of career acceleration, professional flexibility and credibility in multidisciplinary domains, according to the researchers. Negative remarks were centered on the opportunity cost of time and how peers in one discipline negatively perceived the role of the other discipline’s degree.
“These findings reveal new insights for policies affecting physician workforce,” the researchers concluded.
Disclosure: Patel was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. The other authors have no relevant financial disclosures.
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