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• Health Care MBA From: Ramelot  Oct 10, 2011 Posts 1

  Hi, i'm currently studying in Mexico Med School, and i should be done with my career in two more years. My career consists of two years of basic knowledge, then two years of practice (in hospitals), then one year of internship (we practically live in the hospital), and finally one more year of social service (we go to a comunity far from the cities). My questions are: 1. Does my career internship and/or my social service years, count as working experience? 2. Does it matter if my undergraduate degree comes from a Mexican Univeristy? 3. I did six months of practice in Spain (in a hospital), does this count as working experience? 4. What do you recommend to improve my chances?  Reply

• Re: Health Care MBA From: victormlee  Oct 10, 2011 Posts 2,531

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  Ramelot, 1. Working experience can be defined however you think is most reasonable. From my perspective, I'd probably say the internship and social service could potentially be classified as work experience (and maybe even your practice/rotations, depending on scope and level of commitment). 2. No. As an international program, Wharton accepts students from all over the world. 3. Use your best judgment. If you were doing it full-time and got paid for it, that probably would be work experience. 4. Carefully reading many of the threads in this post and looking at the Admissions website. Have a solid answer for "Why do you need a Wharton MBA, now?" and think about how this will come out in your application materials. Think about how you will write your essays. Good luck, Victor WG '11 Reply