<p>Hey everyone,
Im a junior in high school, and Ive reached that time of looking at colleges and deciding on what want to do with my life. For a while now, Ive had a dream of one day becoming a doctor. However, I also have a passion for business. While I enjoy both, it would be superb if I could somehow combine the two things I love. My question is, what careers are out there that do just that? - have a little bit of business and a little bit of medicine. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>There is a major business part of having your own practice/joining a practice if you become a doctor. Outside of that you might be able to work for companies that sell pharmaceuticals, surgical tools, or any other medical goody.</p>
<p>Would you need to go to med school / have a M.D. to work for those companies? Also, would health care administration, or nursing adminstration fit in this category?</p>
<p>An MD isn’t necessary, it just depends on what type of job you’re looking into. What types of jobs are you interested in?</p>
<p>Hmm…i would say less of dealing hands-on with patients, though i still want to be involved, but i dont want to be a sales person for pharacuticals, etc. One thing that that I would think of is Nursing Administration or Healthcare Administration, would that make satisfy my ‘desire’? i googled them both and they arer somewhat appealing.</p>
<p>If you can elaborate on what you mean by a passion for business or how you have come to know you enjoy it or what aspects, maybe I can help. In the realm of highschool, this can mean a lot of things. Do you mean, for example, you enjoy reading the Wall St Journal or popular business bestsellers? Working in your family’s business? The stock market game at your school? Junior Achievement?</p>
<p>i’m actually in the same boat as you. =]</p>
<p>Well starbright, actually yes. I do enjoy those things with the exception of the stock market thing, I only do that once in a while,lol. Anyways, like I posted above, Health Care Administration is somewhat of a combination of the two? You need to know a fair amount of medicine/health care as well as business/management skills, right?</p>
<p>shauniboni what are we going to do? lol</p>
<p>there is a great dual-degree program at upenn where you can enroll both as a science major and as a business major in wharton. </p>
<p>i think that suits you. </p>
<p>only 25 people a year get in. However, upenn is very flexible (as far as i know) with you creating your own degrees. </p>
<p>you can always double major or have a dual-degree program and end up in the pharmaceutical industry or something! </p>
<p>i’m more into science but i also want to do something else with the science, perhaps management. so far i like science and service combined together, and i have no experience in business though i think it would always be fun making money. :)</p>
<p>I don’t know that you would necessarily need to know medicine for Health Administraion as you wouldn’t be required to go to medical school but you’d probably have to take some science classes for the major (and it might be a master’s program).</p>
<p>There is, however, a director at a hospital near me who is an MD and went back to school to get his master’s in Health Administraion.</p>
<p>You haven’t answered the question I was hoping you would answer- I really can’t help you. I have no idea what it is about ‘business’ that gives you passion. Saying you like everything says you really are following something you don’t actually understand yet to have an opinion one way or another about what you’d enjoy for a career. </p>
<p>I think you should major in a science that interests you, and after actually working for a few yeras, and learning what its like, you’ll have a much better idea about what is involved in business and management ,and whether healthcare managemetn makes sense as a career. </p>
<p>And meanwhile stop worrying about finding it-- it’s way too premature.</p>