For physicians who intend to lead

The MBA medical school never taught you.

You mastered the medicine. The finance, the contracts, the leadership, the negotiation — the parts that decide how much control you actually have — were left off the syllabus. Doctor Business School teaches them, in plain language, on a physician's schedule.

This was never a personal shortcoming — it's a gap in the training itself.

74%

of physicians wish they'd learned financial management earlier in their careers.

Source: Sermo
2016

the first year employed physicians outnumbered practice owners.

Source: AMA
~37%

of U.S. medical schools teach the legal and regulatory side of practice.

Source: Sermo
Choose your path

Three tracks. One for exactly where you are.

Self-sorting by career stage — no forms, no quiz required. Start where you stand today.

Free

Foundations

Residents · Early-career attendings

Start your career already fluent in the things that took your attendings a decade to pick up.

  • Your employment contract — read it, then negotiate it
  • How you actually get paid: RVUs, billing, the revenue engine
  • Reading financial statements without an accounting degree
  • Personal finance on a physician's timeline
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Self-paced · 6 modules · ~18 hours · No card required
Coming soon

Leadership

Mid-career · Dept. chairs · CMOs

Walk into the boardroom speaking the language of the people making decisions about your practice.

  • Leading a team of other physicians
  • Change management inside a health system
  • Strategic planning and the P&L
  • Navigating hospital politics and stakeholders
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Self-paced · 6 modules · ~20 hours
Coming soon

Practice MBA

Owners · Partners · Entrepreneurs

Run your practice like the business it is — margins, contracts, and all.

  • Financial modeling and forecasting
  • Revenue cycle management and collections
  • Payer contracting and negotiation strategy
  • Scaling — multi-site, partnerships, and exits
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Self-paced · 6 modules · ~22 hours
What you'll master

Five domains. One operating system for the business of medicine.

Every track builds the same five capabilities — the ones that separate physicians who are managed by the system from the ones who run it.

I

Financial Fluency

Statements, RVUs, compensation, and the money that moves beneath every clinical decision.

II

Strategic Thinking

Reading the market, the payers, and where your career and practice fit inside it.

III

Operational Leadership

Running the clinic, the team, and the workflow so the system serves the patient.

IV

People & Change

Leading other clinicians, managing performance, and moving an institution.

V

Negotiation & Influence

Contracts, offers, and the rooms where decisions about you get made.

How you learn

Built the way physicians actually learn.

Between shifts, on your schedule, with the depth to match the decision in front of you.

Self-paced courses

On-demand lessons, workbooks, and templates. Learn between shifts.

Live cohorts

8-week programs with live sessions, peers, and real case discussion.

Community membership

The full library, a peer community, and live Q&As with faculty.

1-on-1 coaching

Private help for a contract, a transition, or a practice launch.

In-person workshops

Full-day intensives — for individuals and hospital-system teams.

Flagship program · Founding cohort

Ready to move fast? The Physician CEO Intensive.

Ninety days, working directly with Andy, to master all five domains at once — using your real contract and your real numbers, not hypotheticals.

  • 8-week live cohort + 4 private 1-on-1 sessions
  • A full financial review of your practice or comp
  • Your employment contract, torn down clause by clause
  • Backed by the $25,000 value guarantee
See the full offer →
$18,000 in value
$2,500
Founding price · 7 seats · locked for life
Apply for a seat →
Refunded if I can't find you $25,000 in value
Know where you stand

Score yourself across all five domains in five minutes.

A short, physician-specific assessment. No grades — just a clear read of where you're strong, where the leverage is, and what to do next.

Why this exists

You mastered the medicine. I've spent 20 years on the business behind it.

I'm Andy Smith — MBA, doctorate in health administration, and two decades on the business side of healthcare: the Navy, UnitedHealth Group, Optum. The contracts, the P&Ls, the compensation models physicians sign and inherit — I've spent my career on the other side of that table.

I built Doctor Business School to hand that side over. Not because the gap is your fault — it's a design flaw in the training — but because it's completely learnable, and the physicians who learn it lead.

MBA DHA U.S. Navy UnitedHealth Group Optum
From physicians

The gap no one talks about.

I signed my first employment contract without understanding half of it. I left money on the table for years.

Hospitalist · 4 years post-training

They made me department chair and handed me a P&L. I had no idea what I was looking at.

Emergency medicine · New dept. chair

I opened my own practice thinking the hard part was behind me. The business side nearly broke me.

Primary care · Practice owner
Don't wait until it costs you

Physicians who understand business don't just survive the system — they lead it.

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