MBA
Creating a new generation of physician leaders
Merging Medicine and Management
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ustin Makovicka missed two major milestones during what should have been his final semester of medical school. In late March 2015, his classmates attended Match Day, an annual rite of passage where senior med students receive their residency assignments. A few weeks after, they graduated. But Makovicka, 27, now has something his classmates don’t: an MBA. The Ulysses, Nebraska, native will be the first graduate of the five-year MD/MBA dual degree program between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and UNO College of Business Administration. Although Makovicka’s MBA coursework set him back one year, the extra credential will likely set him apart from other candidates in an increasingly competitive and financially challenged healthcare environment.
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