What MBA Students Know and Medical Students Should Consider

Wall Street Journal reporter Melissa Korn reported in her article, “Interns Take the Lead; When Making Offers, More Firms Pick From Summer Talent,” (6/6/13, page B7) that following graduation, one third to half of MBA students take their first job where they had done summer internships. The Graduate Management Admission Council reported that 69% of summer interns received offers from companies where they worked during the summer. Do other professions also determine job offers based on their in-house evaluations of intern summer performance? Certainly this is the case with law firms that regularly hire their best summer interns. Could this type of selection process also be true for residency programs? Since approximately 50% of dermatology applicants match at either their home program or programs where they did an away “audition” rotation, strategic selection of away MS4 rotations by applicants seems to be an important consideration in the matching process.