MBA program offers doctors business background amid health law changes

Jun 4 2013

An Indiana business school is hoping to catch more doctors interested in learning something about business as the practice of medicine changes.

Marketplace: Doctors Seek MBAs To Grapple With Health Care Reform
Doctors used to focus on one thing: practicing medicine. But these days, it pays to know something about business. As health care reform starts upending the economics of medicine, the Kelley School -- a top-20 MBA program, based in Indiana -- is looking to cash in by launching an online MBA for just doctors (Shahani, 6/3).

Also, in the news about doctors and their work trends --

Medpage Today: New Match Policy Boosts Residency Positions
The 2013 residency program match hit an all-time high of more than 29,000 positions due to a new "all-in" policy that requires programs to register all their available slots, according to final data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). The 29,171 positions offered in 2013 marked a 9 percent increase from the 26,772 offered the year before, and 96.4 percent were filled -- resulting in the "highest fill rate in NRMP history," with match rates rising for "nearly every applicant group," Mona Singer, executive director of NRMP, said in a statement (Fiore, 6/1).

Philadelphia Inquirer: 'Doc-In-A-Box' Centers On Rise For Urgent Care
The era of the all-in-one primary-care physician may be coming to a close, replaced by a more cost-effective and time-efficient system that matches a patient's need with the level of care. And urgent care, where patients can be seen without an appointment and treated for everything from flu symptoms to a broken bone, is playing a pivotal role (Calandra, 6/2).