For Deans & Curriculum Leaders
The Top 7 Reasons Medical Students Need a Business Course in Medical School
A short briefing on the gap between clinical training and the business of a medical career, and what it costs your graduates to leave it open.
Your students will sign a contract before they understand one.
What the July 1, 2026 federal loan changes mean for the cohort you are advising right now.
Why Systems-Based Practice already requires business literacy, and how to document it.
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A four-page PDF, sourced throughout. No call required to read it.
Written by Dave Brottman, MD — a general pediatrician who practiced for nearly four decades, built and managed a private practice, and now teaches The Business of Medicine as a fourth-year elective.
What is inside the briefing
Four pages a curriculum committee can actually use.
Not a brochure. Seven documented reasons, each with the source underneath it, written for the people who decide what a fourth year contains. Read it, forward it, bring it to the committee.
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