Sabeen Irfan
高級醫療經理、和睦家醫療
Senior Healthcare Manager、United Family
曼徹斯特大學全球在職MBA 2022屆校友
Manchester Global MBA Class of 2022

我在上海工作了近16年，為國際醫療管理部門工作，目前在和睦家醫療就職。我們的組織和中國所有一線和部分二線城市的醫院和診所合作。 我在上海工作，負責監督上海衛星診所的運營。我是一個醫生，學生生涯中專注學醫。在我的職業早期，我從親自行醫問診調整到了醫療管理模塊， 我公共健康專業的碩士學習經歷以及多年的工作經驗為此打下了堅實的基礎。但是在過去的幾年裏，我很想深入學習全球商業環境，以及不停變化的市場趨勢， 這樣我們才能更好地為患者服務。這就是我開始尋找合適的MBA課程的原因，正在此時，我看到了曼大的MBA項目。

選擇這個項目的原因是它能夠讓我兼顧生活和工作。我不想停止工作，所以我不會選擇全日制的學習項目，但是我又想回到教室和同學們一起上課， 不僅得到專業的學術知識，還可以向不同行業的同學學習。綜上所述，曼徹斯特大學的MBA項目非常契合我的要求，所以這就是我選擇它的原因。

MBA課程鍛煉了我的能力並且讓我更加自信。入讀MBA課程時，我還要兼顧全職工作和家庭需求，一開始的時候這似乎非常具有挑戰性，但同時又很令人興奮， 因為當我被迫面對種種挑戰時，我可以更加清晰地認識到自己的能力，入讀曼大MBA在很多方面都助力了我的個人發展。這段學習經歷讓我和許多其他行業的同學有了交流接觸的機會， 因為我先前僅僅接觸過醫療行業，所以這對我來説是了解和學習其他行業的絕佳機會。從專業角度來説，我認為MBA的學習讓我更有自信了，因為我掌握了更加深入、 系統的知識，拓寬了我的視野，在工作中做決定時我會更加輕鬆且更有掌控權。因此，我覺得曼大MBA項目是正確的選擇。

我是在2020年疫情爆發之前就入讀曼大MBA課程的，如果我提前知道接下來要發生的一切，我可能不會做出這個選擇。因為我在醫療行業工作，我們在疫情下也無法停步。 但我已經在疫情開始前開始了MBA課程，起初我感到擔心，因為受疫情影響，我不知道我們是否可以正常地進行workshop、是否可以達到預期的學習效果。總的來説， 我真的很感謝UoM的工作人員和中國中心的工作人員，因為有了你們，我們能夠及時完成一切。

本文根據2022屆曼徹斯特大學中國中心畢業典禮上的視頻採訪整理

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