Those who are interested in both medicine and business can combine the best of both worlds by pursuing a medical business career. These positions include:
- Medical scientist
- Medical business consultant
- Medical finance specialist
- Healthcare business manager
With a medical business career, you can engage your interest in science, working in a lab or academic setting, while still being engaged in the hurly burly world of business and marketing. Many of today’s new products require research and development that pertains to their health effects, and your work would be useful here. Also, with the advent of so many new drugs for treating diseases like cancer, AIDS, Parkinson’s Disease and more, healthcare has become big business. Business and medicine really go hand in hand, no matter which way you look at it. Keeping up with human health issues and ensuring a sound and healthy population are important concerns as well, and will ensure you have a very rewarding career in medical business.
If you pursued a business degree as a practical measure, but your real passion is in the outdoors, there is a way you can unite these two interests! Outdoor enthusiasts have plenty of opportunities available to them in the form of careers in wildlife environment management, and woodlands environmental management. A minor or dual major in a conservation-oriented field will certainly help you apply your business degree toward this outdoor work, but keep in mind that a great deal of wildlife and woodland management is simply a matter of business. Money is at stake, jobs are at stake, and government grants must be managed. These things call for a business man or woman, not just a tree hugger, so you did well in choosing such a practical major.