master of health administration/public health, helpful for med application?

[keepontrying]

i am starting my MHA program this fall, but since it is a professional grad degree rather than a thesis/research based degree, I'm not sure if it's going to be helpful for my med application later on. Would MPH also be not as useful because of the same reason, even though both grad degrees are related to the healthcare field?

[jelly31]

I don't think it really matters. In fact, a professional grad degree might offer more courses and therefore give you more of a GPA boost. I just did a Master's in Educational Psych (also non thesis-based) and was accepted at Queen's.