The growth of managed health-care plans poses more than a few challenges for today's physicians. Hello pressure on doctors' fees. Hit the books, advise a growing number of B-schools that are marketing new curriculums to help doctors hone their business skills and better understand the managerial side of health care.
Doctors seem to be listening.
To answer that question and others, Business Week Online reporter Nadav Enbar spoke with Michael Stahl, associate dean at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's College of Business Administration. What Every Physician Leader Needs to Know . Frequently that means something like an MBA that would equip a physician with knowledge and skills about the business of health care and the health-care industry. But we do not advocate that all physicians pursue MBAs. The days of the sole practitioner are numbered.