<p>So I've been doing some research and I'm wondering if it matters what med school you go to if you plan to get into hospital administration (with an md/MBA)? This hasn't come up in any of the threads I've read.</p>
<p>If you never want to practice medicine then no. But assuming you do, and for the top hospital residency, school reputation means alot. If big name experience doesn’t matter then your med school should be okay as long as the MD is experience and license worthy.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/213924-why-go-better-med-school.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/213924-why-go-better-med-school.html</a></p>
<p>Most medical school applicants do not have the expectation that they will be able to choose from a large number of medical schools to attend covering a wide range of prestige. The majority of medical school applicants do not get a single offer of admission from a U.S. allopathic medical school. For me, and I suspect most doctors, the best medical school is the one that accepted me.</p>
<p>Thank you all for NOT answering my question</p>
<p>Please re-read my question.</p>
<p>To answer your question: it doesn’t matter which allopathic American medical school you attend ! You may want to research some combine programs where an MD/MPH or MD/MBA are awarded. Regardless of the school you choose you’ll probably do fine being accepted to a graduate program in hospital administration! You should still plan on doing a residency in medicine in order to get a state license to practice medicine and have a specialty. This would demonstrate knowledge and experience of patient care as well as how physicians function in a hospital setting.</p>
<p>As one of the above posters stated the dual program for an MD/MBA would need to be present. And it depends on the programs you are looking at specifically. For an MD you would need to do well on the MCAT. And for the MBA, the GMAT. At some programs just attending the med school will get you into the b school.</p>
<p>But at others it is not a sure thing. The GMAT has more applied math than the MCAT so it is a very different exam. Son majored in econ (calc-based) which required much more math than the pre-med reqs require. He needed math through Def Eq. And then his following econ courses were all calc based. His BPCM gpa ended up being higher than his cGPA due to those econ courses.</p>
<p>But because of that he ended up with a higher percentile score on his GMAT than his MCAT, and his MCAT wasn’t too shabby. </p>
<p>And the other posters were correct in the best med school is the one that accepts you! There are other degrees that lead to hospital administration directly rather than med school, some MBAs have concentrations in just healthcare admin. And of course, the MPH.</p>
<p>Son ended up with 3 degrees in econ, biochem, micro and a minor in genetics. He felt they would provide the best training for his goals of an MD/MBA/MPH.</p>
<p>Of course I do not know how your interviews would be affected and resulting admission decisions if you tell them you want to be a hospital administrator vs. a practicing physician. Son wants to practice and then have something to do with healthcare policy and economics.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Depending on what level of administration you’re talking about, you wouldn’t be up for consideration until you were many years out of training and so what you’ve done since medical school will matter far more than where you graduated from. Of course every step of the way where you’re coming from is a small factor.</p>
<p>I thought BDM’s link to the old thread summed it up well. For everything other than private practice or community hospital, yes, it matters.</p>
<p>^totally agree with you IWBB, but think it’s worth noting that when most people (I know now you, OP) think about docs or wanting to become docs, they’re thinking of private practice or community hospitals. Which is to say “everything other than…” definitely characterizes the career options, but might not characterize the proportion of new docs who choose them.</p>
<p>Go to the med school with the best business school, which usually happens to be the best med school as well.
Otherwise, the MBA is kind of useless.</p>
<p>Examples:
-Harvard (HBS and MIT Sloan)
-UPenn
-Northwestern
-Stanford</p>
<p>Would you be better off getting the MBA right away with a joint program or getting it after you’ve already practiced a while?</p>
<p>Also would the business school really matter? I’ve heard that its highly irrelevant.</p>
<p>The business school matters A LOT. I would say it’s better to wait. An MBA is in no way a critical degree so better to wait until later in your career when you can establish whether you actually need one.</p>