The Kelley School of Business Physician MBA Program is more than simply a degree. This experience also helps you define what you want out of your career, discover which path best suits your skills and then guides you as you take that next step. Through a professional development and career management course, peer networking, and career and leadership coaching, you determine what you want your future to look like, and precisely how you'll get there.
Orlando Landrum, MD, MBA’16 | Anesthesiologist, Founder & CEO at Cutting Edge Integrative Pain Centers
Vesu Voleti, MD, MBA’19 | Emergency Medicine Physician and Regional Chief Medical Officer at Ascension Health- St Vincent
Praveen Rajanahalli, MD, MBA’16 | Family Medicine Physician at Supro Direct Concierge Medicine
A course designed specifically for professional development and career management gives you tools to expand and grow your career, create your physician executive résumé format, leverage LinkedIn, utilize healthcare executive recruiters and expand your executive presence.
Working one-on-one with a dedicated career coach, learn how to conduct a professional job search, craft a memorable résumé, cover letter and elevator pitch, leverage an executive healthcare recruiter and develop your career strategy and tactical plan.
Meeting regularly with your physician leadership coach helps you to leverage your newly developed skills to meet your professional goals. Physician leadership coaching helps you create and implement a personalized plan while highly individualized training guides you in exploring your leadership and career plans.
As you network with classroom peers and Physician MBA alumni from a variety of specialties, locations and healthcare organization types, you also have access to alumni resources through IU and the Kelley School. The largest business school alumni network available, Kelley includes more than 133,000 alums worldwide.
Kelley Physician MBAs across the country have discovered more way to innovate healthcare than we ever imagined. They are optimizing the business of medicine from the C-suite, reducing patient procedure and wait time, working on the payer side to identify health behavior gaps, launching entrepreneurial ventures to improve outcomes and improving access to healthcare for under-served populations. In fact, one in three physicians have been promoted before graduation.
Susannah Eastwick, director of the Physician MBA Program, provides career coaching in our unique curriculum. She has more than 20 years of higher education experience helping adult learners hone their knowledge and skills to meet specific career objectives. Susannah has a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and has worked with executives from Fortune 500 companies to guide their professional development. During a specialized course and through one-on-one coaching, Susannah teaches you how to use career tools that will help you get where you want to go.
Your MBA education doesn’t end when you receive your degree. The Kelley Physician MBA Program includes alumni in special events, speaker series lectures and alumni-only global healthcare study trips around the globe.
Funded by Kevin Hart, MD, MBA’19 and Chad Mathis, MD, MBA’19, the Hart-Mathis Alumni Leadership Coaching Program provides ongoing career support for our graduates. Whether it’s transitioning from physician to administrator roles or addressing work environment concerns, this post-graduation career and leadership coaching program ensures you always have support as you lead change in healthcare.