Doctors As Managers
October 30th, 2007
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With the booming demand for MBAs , increasing number of doctors are enrolling themselves in management schools,
Having admired themselves in surgical gowns, medical students now want to don business suits and lend surgical precision to business strategies. Booming corporate sector and demand for domain specialists has got doctors and medicine graduates smitten by management bug. What was a trickle till now, has turned into a regular phenomenon, according to the Indian Medical Association. As many as 1,000-1 ,500 doctors are enrolling themselves for management programmes each year across the country, IMA says.
While ISB has got 10 doctors in its current flagship programme in management, FMS’ Healthcare Administration has seen the number of seats go up from 15 to 25 in the last two years because of growing demand. “Doctors in the country are taking up management courses to further their careers in a big way and the figure is on the rise,” says IMA Delhi chapter president KK Agarwal.[link]
With the rapid expansion of corporate hospitals, the demand for doctor-managers would only increase. But merely management education is not enough. It is high time universities in India offered doctoral programs in Health Policy and Research. Surely, some of these doctors would be interested in research and in shaping the health policy.
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