Click to play videoNew Delhi: From the operation theater to the boardrooms of corporate India, for 23-year-old MBBS graduate Diksha Aneja it's been quite a transition. She is finalising her admission to one of the Capital’s top B-schools. An unlikely switch? Diksha says she has her reasons.
“I was really sick of the long working hours and as an individual choice I wanted to settle a little earlier in life. The input that one puts into the profession does not justify our pay at all,” says Diksha.
Training institutes say the number of doctors enrolling to coach for the Common Aptitude Test (CAT) have risen from five in a thousand to five in a hundred in a span of six years.
“Many people see this change as an accelerator in their career while others want a genuine career switch,” says consultant at IMS Learning Resources, Ritesh Hemrajani.
It’s not just long working hours and gestation period for the profession that's making doctors opt for management, but it’s also a crucial place that awaits them in a growing healthcare industry where they can work as managers with a solid backing of medical sciences.
Allied services like the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and big hospital chains are also lapping up expertise that doctors bring with them.
“This trend is not just happening at the entry level. People from the medical profession can work in the field of medical tourism and cosmetology also,” Hemrajani explains.
And it is these growing possibilities within the medical profession that doctors are now exploring.
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