Boston Consulting Group 2012 Bridge to BCG workshops

If you have a strong interest in consulting, here is something to consider this summer if you're a medical student or resident:

The Boston Consulting Group announces our 2012 Bridge to BCG workshop designed for Advanced Degree Candidates. If you want to discover more about a consulting career Bridge to BCG will provide a view into what consulting and BCG is like. During these 3 day workshops you will have the opportunity to:

• Find out about consulting and get to know BCG
• Participate in a realistic case experience
• Learn from BCG's thought leaders

These workshops are specifically for advanced degree candidates (PhDs, MDs, post-docs, and JDs) expecting to finish in 2013 and hoping to begin a consulting career. If you are currently a practicing MD or in residency, or a post-doc, the 2013. graduation date requirement does not apply.

Bridge to BCG is a global program and open for full time candidates for our North America, Asia Pacific and European offices.

Bridge to BCG workshop

Here's a message about the Bridge to BCG workshops this summer:

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. Our customized approach ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. We seek to be agents of change—for our clients, our people, and society broadly.

At BCG, you will do more than just analysis. And we require more than just good grades. Our aspiration is to change clients, industries, business, even society. Your success in this depends more on your talents than on the focus of your degree. People with a background in many subjects—business, medicine, natural sciences, philosophy, finance, engineering, history—thrive at BCG.

Consulting workshops for physicians at BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

If you've been thinking about an alternative physician career in consulting, you may be interested in the upcoming Bridge to Consulting BCG Workshop. How many of you would like to work for BCG (Boston Consulting Group)?

These workshops are specifically for advanced degree candidates (PhDs, MDs, post-docs, and JDs) expecting to finish in 2011. If you are currently a practicing MD or in residency, or a post-doc, the 2011 graduation date requirement does not apply. For all Bridge applicants, we are looking for people interested in potentially starting a consulting career in 2011. This is a global program and open for full time candidates for our North America, Asia Pacific and European offices.

The workshops will occur over the summer. Here are the dates and locations:

• July 8-9 in Boston office
• July 22-23 in Chicago office
• July 22-23 in New York office
• July 29-30 in San Francisco office

Applications for Bridge to BCG will be accepted online until Friday, May 7, 2010. You can learn more here:
http://www.bcg.com/careers/adc.aspx

MD/MBA Careers in Consulting (part 2)

Highlights from the Association of MD/MBA Programs (AMMP) 8th Annual Conference.

Lisa Bard Levine, MD, MBA (Associate Director of Healthcare at Navigant Consulting, Inc.) spoke about consulting opportunities for MD/MBAs. During medical school at the combined MD/MBA program, she spent more time focusing on attending careers and less on residency. Then, she selected anesthesia as her residency. She left residency and wanted to return to consulting, so she joined the Bard Group (which was acquired by Navigant Consulting).

Healthcare Consulting Spectrum for Physicians

• Physician Advisor (business development)
• Content Expert (subject matter expert)
• Strategic Consultant (integration and engagement, transformation of care, building strategy and programs)

Organizations are focusing today around performance and value.  Almost every project includes physician engagement.

MD/MBA Careers in Consulting

I'm covering highlights from the Association of MD/MBA Programs (AMMP) 8th Annual Conference. This morning's session on "MD/MBA Careers in Consulting and Entrepreneurship" was an excellent presentation by Spencer Borden, MD, MBA. Dr. Borden is the Senior Managing Scientist at Exponent, Inc. Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm providing solutions to complex technical problems. He gave some great suggestions on how to get involved in medical consulting. Given that consulting ought to be focused around your expertise as a medical professional, how do you prove your expertise to your clients? Here are some practical tips:

• Leverage your publications and case studies
• References/recommendations from clients
• Show knowledge about trends in the industry (perhaps you can do this by blogging)

How do you market yourself?

• Network like crazy and use social networks
• Reach out to 3 new contacts each day

Selecting a prospective client:

• What type of firm has a business need your services?
• Who could hire you? You must establish a personal contact within the firm since most cold calls don't work.

Jobs in Healthcare Consulting

If you could become a healthcare consultant, where would you want to work? McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), or Booz? Perhaps you may be looking for jobs with AT Kearney, Navigant, Accenture, Deloitte. Do you know what it takes to get a job in healthcare consulting? If you're looking for a competitive edge and you're willing to make an investment in your career, then you may want to consider investing in a career coach or mentor who has some first-hand experience working in a consulting firm.

As our nation prepares for some major changes within the healthcare system, I see that more opportunities will open up in the world of healthcare consulting. So many questions will need to get answered before we truly know what type of impact these healthcare reform changes will have on different industries ranging from pharma to managed care to hospital systems to actual physicians.

Top Posts Last Week

Here are the top posts for last week:

1. Non-Clinical Medical Opportunities for Physicians and Other Clinicians

2. Being a Mom and an MD

3. Top Business Graduate Schools for Physician Executives

4. Consulting for McKinsey or the Boston Consulting Group

Top Content Last Week

Top content for the last week:

1. Non-Clinical Medical Opportunities for Physicians and Other Clinicians

2. Top Business Graduate Schools for Physician Executives

3. Search tags for "Physician Executive"

4. Being a Mom and an MD

5. Search tags for "Non-Clinical Opportunities"
   

6. Finding the Right Non-Clinical Opportunity

7. Environmental Health Epidemiologist?

8. Consulting for McKinsey or the Boston Consulting Group

Top Posts for April 2009

Here were the top posts for April 2009:

1. Non-Clinical Medical Opportunities for Physicians and Other Clinicians

2. Top Business Graduate Schools for Physician Executives

3. Consulting for McKinsey or the Boston Consulting Group

4. Finding the Right Non-Clinical Opportunity

5. Facebook Group: Physician Executives

Coming Up Soon - Salary Questions Answered

I've had the chance to ask various questions to a few recruiters who have extensive experience working for pharma/biotech and corporations like McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group. One of the biggest questions that comes up is: "what types of salaries do these physicians make when they enter the corporate world?" There's no easy answer, but there are some "guidelines" that certain companies follow to maintain internal equity. As long as I don't get bogged down with stories on swine flu, I hope to get "part 1" of my "inteview with the recruiter" out this week. Image is from The Recruiters Lounge.

Consulting for McKinsey or the Boston Consulting Group

It seems like many students who pursue a joint MD/MBA want to get a consulting job at McKinsey & Company. Who wouldn't? I've known several people who have worked at McKinsey and I'm always fascinated by the unique stories associated with the McKinsey culture. I've also met medical school graduates who have pursued opportunities at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG, not to be confused with the BCG vaccine). So what about you? Do you have strong interests in the business/consulting industry? If you're pre-med, are you planning on pursuing an MD/MBA program? As I look back on my education, I often wonder whether I would have pursued a combined MD/MBA. Since I lacked "real world" working experience before applying to medical school, I think I would have been lost in business school. Had a been a non-traditional student who had worked for several years prior to applying to medical school, then I would have seriously considered a combined MD/MBA program.