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Articles
Biobusiness is Booming. Want to get
Involved? by Arlen Meyers MD, MBA.
Plastic surgeon Terry Knapp, MD, CEO of Colorado-based Inter-Os Technologies, and cofounder of Collagen Corporation, knows
what it takes to be a successful bioentrepreneur. more...
AMA Foundation Names First Medical Student to Board
The American Medical Association Foundation has named the first medical student member of its Board of
Directors, an effort to bring the fresh perspective of a future physician to the philanthropic arm of the nation’s
largest physician association.more...
Do MDs or MBAs Make Better Leaders?
 by Bonar Menninger HealthLeaders March 2005 Cover Story
When David B. Nash was applying to medical schools back in 1976, he informed admissions officers that he was interested in pursuing a business degree as well as a medical education.
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From MD to MBA Do Physicians Need
a Business Degree? by Bob Keaveney.
Crystal Run Healthcare has come a long way from its 1982 beginnings as a one-physician, one-site practice
with an unfinished floor. And so has its founder, Hal Teitelbaum, MD, a former academic who launched the practice with
no business experience and no money.
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From MD to MBA: The Next Step in Patient Care? by Faye Goolrick.
To doctors who have completed the rigorous and time-consuming education and training process, the idea of
pursuing an MBA degree might seem like a daunting career redirection. Not necessarily, say physician-graduates of
Goizueta Business School. On the contrary, a business degree can help practicing physicians and physician-administrators
deliver better patient care.
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From test tube to test marketing.
By Daniel S. Levine, San Francisco Business Times March 28, 2003
UCSF class for lab coats teaches the basics of life as a suit.
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Grady whacks deficit.
Cost-cutting surgery succeeds:Some call process painful; others hail turnaround as a miracle by Patricia Guthrie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 9, 2004 (Free Registration required).
Grady Health System has reduced its nearly $60 million deficit by more than two-thirds in the past year under a new
administration. The reduction was accomplished by laying off staff, lessening reliance on temporary nursing agencies,
and other measures.
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MD/MBA Programs Growing, Students Explain Why
by Windsor Sherrill, Ph.D., MBA
As future physician executives, the students enrolled in MD/MBA programs at 42 medical schools across the country are certainly a unique group.
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MD/MBA Students: An Analysis of Medical Student Career Choice
by Windsor Sherrill, Ph.D., MBA
As the development health care systems has combined clinical and administrative functions, the role of physician executives has increased as well as the demand for related training of physician leaders.
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PhD or MD x MBA=Success2
By Kim Weaver Spurr, Spring 2004 UNC Business Magazine
As a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine and pathology at UNC's School of Medicine,
Gene Sanders' daily vocabulary includes talk of arrhythmias, pacemakers and defibrillators. But Sanders can just
as easily toss aside his white coat and strike up a conversation about game theory, cash flow and strategy - and
how to tackle the challenging financial constraints of modern medicine today.
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Physician Executive Career Moves
by Bonnie Darves.
A growing number of physicians are finding satisfaction, reaping rewards by becoming physician
executives
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Practice management curriculum allows residents to 'get the dream back' By Leslie Champlin
Family medicine is about the people, not the paperwork, says Max Bayard, M.D. But too often, business problems distract physicians from their medical focus and interfere with patient care. That means family medicine residents must learn the science of business so they can practice the art of medicine, he says.
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Some are meant to lead. Maybe you.
By Cynthia Starr, Medical Economics Jan. 22, 2001
Want to be a medical director, start your own business, head a large practice, or take on more responsibility
where you are? Here's how your colleagues are doing it.
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The Case for the MD,
MBA by Kevin R. Loughlin, MD, MBA Contemporary Urology September 2003;15:41-45.
The medical profession continues to become increasingly complex and is now more of a business than ever before. While
physicians who spend the time and money to acquire an MBA degree will most certainly derive personal benefit, the skills
gained will benefit the medical profession as well.
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The Traitor Complex by Windsor Sherrill Physician Executive January-February 2005, pp. 48-9.
The transition from clinical roles to administrative functions has always been challenging for physician executive.
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Why healthcare systems need medical managers:
BMJ Editorial, BMJ 1997;314:1636 (7 June)
Healthcare systems need the best management. This can happen only if doctors become more involved in
management and increase their management skills. Experience in many health systems has shown that doctor managers
have distinct advantages over their non-medical counterparts, including greater credibility, a deeper knowledge of
how health care works, and a less trammelled ability to speak out. But these advantages will count for little unless
doctors who become managers are well trained and work to develop the intellectual base of medical management. Various
initiatives are under way to develop medical managers, including the relaunch in February 1998 by the BMJ Publishing
Group of the journal Clinician in Management.
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Why I Am Entering into an Executive MBA Program:
JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Editorial, VOL. 96, NO. 10, OCTOBER 2004
In the fall, I will begin an executive MBA program at Rutgers State University of New Jersey.
more...
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