Physician MBA

Optimize medicine from the C-suite.

Leadership is central to the work of a physician, and we’ve made it a central component of the Physician MBA Program at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. We are the only top-ranked business school to offer an MBA exclusively for physicians.

Through our partnership with the American Association for Physician Leadership, the 21-month Physician MBA provides a pathway for AAPL physician leaders to acquire the business language and tools they need to make bold healthcare changes. You are better equipped to tackle tough challenges when you possess both clinical and business expertise.

Physician members of AAPL may receive: a 10% reduction in Physician MBA course tuition, an accelerated application process, and access to qualify for the AAPL Capstone on your way to becoming a Certified Physician Executive.

Regardless of your reason for enrolling in the Kelley Physician MBA, your return on investment is immediate. Our students apply hands-on class projects to address issues within their organizations, and they capitalize on career coaching to earn new leadership positions even before they graduate.

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Improving healthcare: CMO uses Physician MBA to eliminate business blind spots.

“Physician administrators are not trained during their medical careers to handle employees; they’re trained to handle disease,” says Rocky Singh, MD, MBA’15.

When he enrolled in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Physician MBA Program, Dr. Singh wanted to be better equipped to answer questions about the regulatory, financial or business aspects of running a hospital. Ultimately, he says lessons in leadership played the biggest role. While physicians are experts on the clinical aspects of healthcare, Dr. Singh says concepts like fiscal responsibility and how to motivate employees are often foreign to them because they’ve not been trained for a management role.

“To become a good supervisor, you have to understand yourself, your leadership style, how you operate and where your own blind spots are,” he says. “The Physician MBA Program gives you more perspective about the gaps in your repertoire to identify what you are missing. Are you the type who subscribes to servant leadership? You may have blind spots in accountability as you try to do good for others. Is that really helping your team? That’s what the Kelley MBA helps you identify.”

Shortly after earning his MBA, Dr. Singh was promoted from regional medical director to vice president and chief medical officer. Kelley faculty recognized Dr. Singh’s continued growth as a physician leader, his contributions to the healthcare community and his advocacy mentoring other physicians’ development by selecting him for the 2020 Anthony D. Cox Leadership and Impact Award.