What are my options to further my career as a 68W?

As a 68W you aren't going to find any job in the Army that focuses in either administration or teaching. Promotion models encourage diversity and being well rounded. While you can get a gig as an instructor, that will only be for a few years. It's excellent for promotion, but afterward you will return to the field. You will also end up working in both hospitals and at units. As you gain rank, you are less likely to be augmented to a clinic, especially for clerical work, where civilians often perform admin.
As a 68W, the MOS is so broad that you could be on a line, or you could be sent on a tasking to teach medical skills in another country, or you could be a program administrator for training in your unit. There are Healthcare Admin Officer MOS's but those are only Reserve MOS's. Also, there are no Warrant jobs that would fall into that area.

Dude! Go PA or Nursing! Look into the AMEDD Program! You are set!

Truth is that you will never be utilized to your maximum capacity as an NCO with your credentials. I would highly recommend exploring direct commission to MS if that program is still around. Based upon your education you would be an ideal candidate.

Contact an AMEDD heathcare recruiter to find out your options.

Once commissioned you work as a 70B until you complete command and then you can select the 70A, healthcare administration MOS and request to attend the Heathcare admin MBA program at FSH that is run by the Army through Baylor.

Take a Nursing bridge program to bridge your BS into a Nursing degree. With your MBA and experience you can then go into Hospital Management as a civilian. Most civilian hospital managers are nurses with advanced degrees in healthcare management/ nursing management etc. With those advanced degrees you won't find anything to advance your military career aside from going officer. And even then you might be better off just going civilian anyway.

Sounds like we have similar career considerations, although I'm active duty. Your degree and expertise means a lot, but I think it will not be properly exploited at your current rank. We need good Chief Warrant Officers and Officers. Just my opinion.

I would suggest you look at becoming a direct commission MSC officer and ask for medical records assignment. Then try to get a position as a clinic or hospital admin officer. Finish your 20 and go into medical admin. With your experience you will go far. I wish I had gotten a degree years ago.

SGT Jones,

I am in the executive search business and one of my specialties is recruiting for hospitals since I have a medical background as a former 91B3F.

You need to know that as far as hospital administration goes, you are going to run into a lot of competition since hospitals -for various reasons- are closing and, there is a lot of consolidation among the hospital systems. This has left the market heavy with hospital administrators, looking for new jobs, heading up a hospital.

You don't indicate the scope of your 'practice manager' duties nor the dollar volume of the clinic so I can't comment as to whether you would easily transition to hospitals without picking up a Masters in Hospital Administration.

Also, if you don't indicate whether or not you are trained in Lean Methods/Continuous Improvement. If so, then you can fairly easily get jobs as a Performance Improvement Leader for different medical groups and hospitals. These jobs pay from about $110K to about $140K.

If you are not trained in the TPS, then you will be left behind or get bumped in favor of someone who is.


Paul

Well just going off what you said why not look into being a recruiter down at ol' 232 in Sam.

If you don't mind going to OC you're a shoe in to be a medical service officer. they command and are platoon leaders in the medical company in the army. You are able to make major without alot od difficulty. the beauty of this is that you will be with medical professionals and with medics. You also have the ability to branch into med ops, med logistics, and will be a key member of a bn or BDE staff.

Hpsp.