A growing number of academic employers - especially in the medical field - demands the completion of management courses (f.e. MBA in health care management) for their faculties in the framework of their tenure-track models.
How do you see this development?
This trend demonstrates that medicine is dominated by business in modern healthcare. In my eyes this is a very dangerous development. It is correct, that we should know the prices of the articles/procedures we use/perform, but these data shuld not dominate our decisions.
everything around is dominated by business today. To be successful today, you need to be good in selling too. There is too much competition in all fields. Survival of the fittest or the one with an alternative viable solution. So either be different or be the best among equals.
Management is the key to the success of any venture today, including Medicine.
Having taught in a number of executive and MBA programs for physicians, my opinion is that further management education is a must for division chiefs, chairs, deans and those physicians in executive jobs. However, it must include other skills, especially epidemiology. For primary care it must take place at the senior resident or division chief level. Once they get out time pressures to bill are too great. Specialists can wait until later in their careers.
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