Sabeen Irfan
高级医疗经理、和睦家医疗
Senior Healthcare Manager、United Family
曼彻斯特大学全球在职MBA 2022届校友
Manchester Global MBA Class of 2022

我在上海工作了近16年，为国际医疗管理部门工作，目前在和睦家医疗就职。我们的组织和中国所有一线和部分二线城市的医院和诊所合作。 我在上海工作，负责监督上海卫星诊所的运营。我是一个医生，学生生涯中专注学医。在我的职业早期，我从亲自行医问诊调整到了医疗管理模块， 我公共健康专业的硕士学习经历以及多年的工作经验为此打下了坚实的基础。但是在过去的几年里，我很想深入学习全球商业环境，以及不停变化的市场趋势， 这样我们才能更好地为患者服务。这就是我开始寻找合适的MBA课程的原因，正在此时，我看到了曼大的MBA项目。

选择这个项目的原因是它能够让我兼顾生活和工作。我不想停止工作，所以我不会选择全日制的学习项目，但是我又想回到教室和同学们一起上课， 不仅得到专业的学术知识，还可以向不同行业的同学学习。综上所述，曼彻斯特大学的MBA项目非常契合我的要求，所以这就是我选择它的原因。

MBA课程锻炼了我的能力并且让我更加自信。入读MBA课程时，我还要兼顾全职工作和家庭需求，一开始的时候这似乎非常具有挑战性，但同时又很令人兴奋， 因为当我被迫面对种种挑战时，我可以更加清晰地认识到自己的能力，入读曼大MBA在很多方面都助力了我的个人发展。这段学习经历让我和许多其他行业的同学有了交流接触的机会， 因为我先前仅仅接触过医疗行业，所以这对我来说是了解和学习其他行业的绝佳机会。从专业角度来说，我认为MBA的学习让我更有自信了，因为我掌握了更加深入、 系统的知识，拓宽了我的视野，在工作中做决定时我会更加轻松且更有掌控权。因此，我觉得曼大MBA项目是正确的选择。

我是在2020年疫情爆发之前就入读曼大MBA课程的，如果我提前知道接下来要发生的一切，我可能不会做出这个选择。因为我在医疗行业工作，我们在疫情下也无法停步。 但我已经在疫情开始前开始了MBA课程，起初我感到担心，因为受疫情影响，我不知道我们是否可以正常地进行workshop、是否可以达到预期的学习效果。总的来说， 我真的很感谢UoM的工作人员和中国中心的工作人员，因为有了你们，我们能够及时完成一切。

本文根据2022届曼彻斯特大学中国中心毕业典礼上的视频采访整理

I've been in Shanghai for almost 16 years, and I'm working for international healthcare management here. I work with a private organization called United Family Healthcare. Our organization operates through network of hospitals and clinics through all tier one and some tier two cities in China. I'm overseeing the operations for satellite clinics in Shanghai. I'm a doctor，I studied medicine. However, quite early in my career I moved from clinical to healthcare administration, and I have also done some postgraduate studies in public health. I think my medical background and also my postgraduate studies in public health have given me a sound understanding of health system, plus my experience over the years, but in the past few years I would say that I started to feel I would like to strengthen my knowledge and understanding of the dynamic global business environment. And also learn more about the ever-changing market trends, so we can better take care of the needs of our customers no matter what industry we belong to. That's why I started to look for some suitable course options and I came across Global MBA programme from the University of Manchester.

Why I particularly opted for this programme is because it kind of gave me the best of both worlds. I did not want to disrupt my career at this point, so I did not want to leave my job and then pursue on-campus studies，but at the same time I wanted to have the feel of a classroom, be with classmates and have the opportunity to actually have professional networking where you are not only getting the academic concepts but actually you are learning from people across different industries and you can really get some hands on knowledge. I think this programme allowed me to strengthen my belief in my own capabilities because starting quite a rigorous MBA programme with a full time job and also with the needs of family, it seemed very kind of challenging at the beginning but then that was the exciting part of it because it really allowed me to challenge myself and it's always interesting to see when you really put your mind into something how you can actually do it despite different challenges that you meet so I feel that it has personally influence me in many ways. It has allowed me to connect with friends and classmates from different industries because I have been affiliated with healthcare mainly, so I would say that was a great opportunity to learn from people from different industries and see how we are so different in various industries but there are a lot of similarities in the business environment that allow you to learn from each other quite effectively. And professionally, I feel it has boosted my confidence to make certain decisions because I feel the knowledge that we acquired through some of the courses in the programme, it has given me deeper insight and I feel more relaxed and more sort of in control when I make certain decisions. So it has been quite an amazing journey and it has really been a great decision to pursue this.

Actually we just started in January 2020 and it was just this before pandemic came, I would say that looking back if I kind of knew just few days back that's what gonna happen I don't know if I was to gonna take this decision because I work in healthcare and we are one profession that never stops, you know even in this kind of situation. But I had already started when it happened, and in the initial phases it was a bit I would not call it disappointing but concerning, we were very concerned if we will be able to have workshops if you know we will be able to really make the most of this programme. I would say all in all I'm actually very grateful to UoM staff and also the China centre staff that because of all of you we were actually able to complete everything in time.

Based on the video interview during China Centre graduation celebration in 2022