It's not unusual for us health writers to think, "If I had a dime for every time I heard a practice management expert say that physicians have inadequate business skills to run a practice...," writes FiercePracticeManagement Editor Deb Beaulieu. And apparently, a growing number of medical schools have caught on to the fact that doctors need better business management skills. According to Stephen Whitney, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics-emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and a physician at Texas Children's Hospital, the MD/MBA program instituted at Baylor in 1997 was the third of its kind in the country. Currently, he tells Physician's Money Digest, more than 50 medical schools have dual-degree programs. FiercePracticeManagement