Medical Provider to Mgmt Consulting (boutique or healthcare-focused)
Hey WSO community,
I'm trying to get some insight or thoughts from the WSO community regarding my chances for transitioning from being a medical provider and into management or strategy consulting (general/healthcare-focused) and what are my logical or best choices in terms of what I should strive for? I'm not necessarily shooting for MBB as I'm trying to be realistic, but then again I'm not sure what my chances would be. Therefore, I have focused thus far and settled prematurely for tier 2 and tier 3 --> ie: Deloitte consulting, AT Kearney, LEK, OW, Putnam, Huron, ZS Associates, Accenture, ECG management, Clearview Healthcare, E&Y consulting, PwC consulting, GE healthcare, to name a few.
-But, even with those firms mentioned, I see most of their people have ivy league degrees and good prior experience pre-MBA. -I know at the end of the day a medical background doesn't help much, but hoping it differentiates me of course, and I'm curious what firms would think of such of a background, even at the more prestigious firms, is there still a chance to shoot for that?
I'm currently 25 years old:
-My background: Non-Target Undergrad (Ranking 100-130): cGPA 3.8 (Graduated at 19 years old) Non-Target Physician Assistant Program: cGPA 3.85 Included 8 core medical rotations (elective emergency medicine)
-Work Experience: Spine-Neurosurgery (private practice): 8 months Emergency Medicine (Level 3 Trauma Center): 2 years -Advanced Practice Provider Internship 6 months - mandatory per my job. Medical Volunteer Abroad - primary care
-Non-target FT MBA-Finance program (ranking 30-40): soon to matriculate.
Thank you!
WSO ate my previous post so here’s a shorter V2: yes, please apply all over the place. T1 might not take you but T2/3 should value your experience a lot, both directly (as relevant to healthcare vertical) and indirectly (the type of work overlaps with consulting tasks: teamwork, personal relationships, time managment, etc).
In essence, you’re going to be part SME (subject matter expert), part technical delivery (whatever it is you can do for clients), part people person.
There’s a big ol’ talent gap out there...
And if that doesn’t work, you can show potential employers some YouTube videos of arthrodesis in action, preferably during lunch time.:)
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