Doctor's Role

In the fast-changing world of modern healthcare, the job of a doctor is more and more like the job of a chief executive. The people who run hospitals and physicians' practices don't just need to know [blank] . They must also be able to balance budgets, motivate a large and [blank] staff, and make difficult marketing and [blank] decisions."The focus in medical school is to train good doctors, but part of being a good doctor is being a good manager," says Fawaz Siddiqi, a neurosurgical resident at the London Health Sciences Centre in Canada. "It's having a core understanding of how to work within the context of an organization." The desire to be a "good manager" is precisely the reason Dr. Siddiqi, who [blank] one day to run a hospital, decided to go back to school. This past autumn he enrolled in a health-sector MBA program at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.