<p>Internal medicine maybe, but PhDs aren’t exactly the straight up golden ticket into residencies like they used to be:</p>
<p>[MD/PhD:</a> Longer, Harder, Faster: Decoding MD/PhD match lists](<a href=“http://www.neuronix.org/2011/07/nrmp-puts-out-charting-outcomes-in.html]MD/PhD:”>MD/PhD: Longer, Harder, Faster: Decoding MD/PhD match lists)</p>
<p>An MBA is probably not a huge boost at your level. If a hospital really wanted to, it could and would probably pay for a staff member to get an MBA in preparation for a larger administrative role, and there are many high level hospital admins with no MBA. I certainly don’t think it would hurt, but I was under the impression that MBAs don’t really teach you much and are more about networking. You’d probably be better off doing a year of research during medical school (which could easily tie to administration) than doing an MBA.</p>