Medical Student Business Fellowship
To apply: Send a resume, cover letter and one paragraph describing your prior experience and specific interest in the program.
A summer fellowship designed for medical students who want to learn about the business of medicine at one of the nation’s largest health service organizations.
You will work with Geisinger’s executive leadership to develop a business plan for a high-priority system initiative, such as:
- Improving hospital processes
- Improving care management
- Managing payor strategies
- Developing IT strategies
You will research and analyze data, develop hypotheses and present your findings and recommendations.
Hire type: Full-time with competitive pay
Duration: 8 to 12 weeks depending on students’ summer schedule
Location: Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania
Program brochure
How to apply
Submit a resume, cover letter and one paragraph describing your prior experience and specific interest in the program.
Applications open: Oct. 6, 2025
Applications due: Jan. 11, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET
Interviews: Select candidates will be invited for interview on a rolling basis. We strongly encourage applicants to submit their application before the January deadline. Finalists will be invited for a second-round interview with program leadership.
Decision made: Feb. 27, 2026
If you have questions regarding the fellowship or the application process, email Andrew Luo at adluo@geisinger.edu.
Helping you prepare for the future of healthcare
The Medical Student Business Fellowship offers unique opportunities for education and hands-on training in the following areas:
- Healthcare financing: Healthcare costs in the U.S. continue to rise, and organizations have an opportunity to contribute to the solution by driving toward greater value in healthcare. Physicians will play a pivotal role in charting this path toward greater value, and this will be enabled by equipping physicians with a deeper understanding of the economic complexities and challenges in healthcare.
- Management and leadership: Along with their clinical duties, physicians are taking on more responsibilities in health system administration and executive leadership. The number of MD/MBA joint degree programs have more than doubled since 2000, as medical schools are realizing that building students’ skill sets in management and leadership are crucial for the development of future physician leaders.
- Health systems science: There is increasing emphasis on health system science education in medical school curricula, including coursework on healthcare quality, patient safety, value-based care, and population health. National organizations such as the American Medical Association have dedicated multi-million dollar grants so that medical schools can build out health systems curricula, and health systems science is being incorporated in medical board licensing exams.
How does the fellowship work?
Discover
• Orientation to Geisinger
• Business plan assignment
Assess
• Conduct external research and analyze data sets
• Participate in team meetings and problem solve
Present
• Document findings and conclusions
• Present your business plan
Do I qualify?
Featured projects
Over the course of the summer, fellows worked on projects including:
- Building a scheduling model to improve patient utilization for Geisinger 65 Forward
- Developing a pitch deck to support strategic partnerships with industry partners
- Analyzing emergency department identification strategies for lowering preventable utilization
- Designing a primary care education program for trainees at Geisinger School of Medicine
- Creating a dashboard to monitor care patterns in patients with complex illnesses
- Contributing to care model innovation through remote patient monitoring improvement and redesign of care team roles
Alumni outcomes
Past fellows have gone on to pursue a variety of clinical interests at residency programs across the country:
- Maryam Alausa – Internal Medicine at University of Chicago
- Azraa Chaudhury – Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Delphine Huynh – MD student at Geisinger School of Medicine
- Prerak Juthani – Internal Medicine at Stanford Medicine
- Kenneth Lee – Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Jessica Lin – Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Angela Malinovitch – MD/MBA student at University of Pennsylvania
- Neil Rens – Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Michael Sessine – Urology at Wayne State University
- Eric Shan – MD/MBA student at University of Pennsylvania
- Armaan Singh – Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Diane Somlo – Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Daniel Thomas – Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- Daniel Thompson – Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital
- Akhil Upneja – Internal Medicine at UCSF Medical Center
- Jack Zhao – Internal Medicine at University of Chicago
2025 Fellows
Angela Wei
Hometown: Columbia, MD
Medical school: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Undergraduate school: Duke University
Specialty of interest: Internal Medicine
Prior work experience: Life Sciences Consultant at Simon-Kucher
“Geisinger’s fellowship offered rare insight into how a leading system redesigns primary care and delivers value-based care, especially in rural settings. I wanted to learn how top leaders align quality care with long-term sustainability and meaningful patient outcomes.”
Nisarg Shah
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Medical school: Yale School of Medicine
Undergraduate school: UCLA
Specialty of interest: Internal Medicine/Cardiology
Prior work experience: Executive Director at HAVEN Free Clinic
“The Business Fellowship offered unmatched early exposure to health system leadership in a collaborative, visionary environment. I was deeply drawn to its strong focus on patient-centered, value-based care and the chance to work on high-impact projects.”