Doctor of Medicine/Master of Business Administration (M.D./M.B.A.)

The M.D./M.B.A. is offered in New Brunswick and Newark.

Newark Program

For the Newark location, you must first have been admitted to New Jersey Medical School at Newark. For more details, contact Mercedes M. Lettman, Director of Admissions, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School at lettman@umdnj.edu.

New Brunswick/Piscataway Program

The New Brunswick-based M.D./M.B.A. program, which is a collaborative effort on the part of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Business School: Graduate Programs-Newark and New Brunswick (RBS), is designed to provide medical students with the knowledge and skills necessary for positions in the health care industry that require expertise in both the medical and economic aspects of health care. Students earn both the M.D. degree and the M.B.A. degree during the course of a five-year medical school program. As a dual-degree program, students fulfill all academic requirements for each degree.

The M.B.A. requires the completion of 60 credits of course work. This includes 40 credits of required and core M.B.A. courses focused on accounting, economics, finance, decision analysis, marketing, statistics, information technology, supply chain, law, and management strategies. This sequence of course work also includes a 5 credit Interfunctional Management Consulting Program in which student teams work together on a business consulting assignment. The program is specifically targeted to the needs of medical students through the inclusion of 8 credits transferred in from the medical school in areas of ethics, environmental medicine, and clinical prevention. The remaining 12 credits required for the M.B.A. represent elective business courses or noted substitutes selected on the basis of student interest and may include available courses at the School of Public Health.

The M.D. and M.B.A. degrees are accomplished during the course of a 5-year medical school program (see curriculum chart). Students apply to RBS for admission to the M.B.A. program during their first year of medical school while completing 5 of 8 medical school credits that transfer into the M.B.A. program as elective credits. During the summer following the first year, students complete 6 credits of core M.B.A. courses in accounting and marketing. The second year of the program is devoted to full-time course work in RBS (completion of 46 credits during the fall, spring, and summer semesters). During the third year, the students resume the medical school curriculum. The students will complete their medical school training/clerkships during years four and five of the dual-degree program.

Admission

Applications may be obtained through either UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, or RBS student services and graduate admissions offices.

Admission to the program is competitive. A maximum of four first-year medical students will be awarded scholarships through Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Other first-year medical students may be offered admission on a no scholarship basis. Students will be admitted to the program in spring of each year. Medical students are required to take the GMAT examination and to be accepted for admission by RBS.

For more information on the New Brunswick M.D./M.B.A. program, please contact Barbara Sackie, Program Administrator, RBS, at 732/445-4046 or sackie@rbsmail.rutgers.edu; or Dr. David Seiden Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at 732/235-4587 or seiden@umdnj.edu.

Registration

Students register for all M.B.A. courses through RBS. Students are registered as nonmatriculating during the first summer semester with RBS then as matriculating full-time status during the subsequent fall, spring, and summer semesters (during their two- semester leave from medical school). The 8 credits of medical school course work will be transferred into and recorded on the students` RBS transcript to complete the 60-credit requirement for the M.B.A.

Curriculum