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Medical Device Sales

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Medical Device Sales places you in a rewarding industry with high earning potential, flexible work, and the opportunity to impact patients’ lives through the products you sell. Butler University has partnered with Medical Sales College to offer students hands-on training to prepare students for success in this competitive field. Emphasizing experiential learning, our program ensures that knowledge isn’t just acquired but immediately applied, fostering adaptability and robust problem-solving abilities. Through deliberate learning experiences both inside and outside the classroom, graduates emerge equipped with highly marketable skills, positioning them distinctly in the job market.

Program Details

Requirements

Requirements

Butler’s Medical Device Sales program is open to anyone, with no application requirements or prerequisites.

Curriculum

Curriculum

The orthopaedic extremities market is one of the fastest growing in orthopaedics as procedures and implants gain more acceptance. Program course material on orthopaedic reconstruction and trauma breaks out into knee week, hip week, and trauma week. Students learn from an industry-first curriculum built specifically for the orthopaedic device community.

Faculty

Dr. Sarah Dickey

Dr. Sarah E. Dickey received her BS in Biology from Indiana University-Bloomington, and earned her Doctorate of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago. Dr. Dickey completed her Foot and Ankle Surgical Residency at Stroger Cook County Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago and Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Following her graduation from residency, she worked as a Sports Medicine Physician and Surgeon at The Running Institute. She medically and surgically treated athletes from the Chicago Marathon and the Joffrey Ballet and gained expertise in Orthobiologics and Regenerative Medicine.

In 2013 she became Faculty at Loyola University Medical Center and Hines VA as an Attending Podiatric Physician and Surgeon and ascended to Associate Professor. Through her professorship, she educated medical students, residents, and fellows during monthly lectures, grand rounds, and in the operating room. Her areas of interest were trauma, limb salvage and elective forefoot and ankle surgery. Following her Academic position, she transitioned into private practice at Northern Illinois Foot and Ankle Specialists. A career path change led Dr. Dickey back into education, and she is honored to be a part of the educational faculty at Medical Sales College. In her pastime, Dr. Dickey loves spending time with her husband and daughter, exercising (Pure Barre), and traveling.

Scott Holdsworth

Scott launched his career in the medical device industry in 1986 with Zimmer, Inc.(now Zimmer Biomet). He started as an entry-level manufacturing technician. By the time he left in 2004, Scott had become Global Director of Marketing Extremities. He then moved to Smith & Nephew, Inc. in Memphis, Tenn., working in hip marketing for three years. Before coming to the Med Sales Institute, Scott spent 12 years in sales training for Orthopaedic Reconstruction, Trauma & Extremities and Robotics.  He most recently held the position of Director of Commercial Training & Education Orthopaedics, Americas.

Scott comes from Ohio, where he completed his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ohio Northern University. The Med Sales Institute provides Scott an opportunity to expand his skills in career development and continue to give back to individuals who aspire to a medical device sales career. Scott joined the institute in 2020 and continues his passion for The Ohio State Buckeyes from the great state of Georgia.

Program Highlights

Why choose to become a medical sales representative? It’s a career that places you in a rewarding, lucrative industry with high earning potential, flexible work, and the opportunity to impact patients’ lives through the medical device products you sell. Medical sales reps also have control over their career success – it’s a field where effort equals earnings.

Butler University has partnered with Medical Sales College to offer students a hands-on and affordable educational opportunity that prepares students to excel in a competitive, rewarding field of medical device sales.

Overview

  • Hands-On and Virtual Reality surgical based training
  • Instructors with 500+ years of industry experience
  • Thriving Metropolis location in downtown Indianapolis
  • One year access to placement services

Program Length

12

Weeks

I would recommend the Orthopaedic Extremities and Orthopaedic Reconstruction & Trauma Program​ to anyone who is looking to get into this industry. There’s a certain level of finesse, there’s a certain level of professional knowledge necessary. You have to look at an x-ray and help the doctor figure out treatment. You have to help a surgeon, as you’re standing in the OR, figure out how to use your product while they’re using it on a patient.

Ashley Hauss
Capsa Health

Careers in Medical Sales

Below you will find several key statistics that illustrate what you can expect as you evolve in your career as a medical device professional
Independent / 1099 Representative 

Independent / 1099 Representative 

  • Medium Income: $95,057
  • Years of Experience: 0-2 Years

Source: 2021 MedReps Medical Sales Salary Report. Average total compensation (base + commission + bonus) based on average years of experience and sales title.

Field Representative 

Field Representative 

  • Medium Income: $143,815
  • Years of Experience: 3-5 Years

Source: 2021 MedReps Medical Sales Salary Report. Average total compensation (base + commission + bonus) based on average years of experience and sales title.

Account Manager 

Account Manager 

  • Medium Income: $179,490
  • Years of Experience: 6-10 Years

Source: 2021 MedReps Medical Sales Salary Report. Average total compensation (base + commission + bonus) based on average years of experience and sales title.

Management

Management

  • Medium Income: $209,266
  • Years of Experience: 11-20 Years

Source: 2021 MedReps Medical Sales Salary Report. Average total compensation (base + commission + bonus) based on average years of experience and sales title.

Director / Vice President

Director / Vice President

  • Medium Income: $247,450
  • Years of Experience: 20+ Years

Source: 2021 MedReps Medical Sales Salary Report. Average total compensation (base + commission + bonus) based on average years of experience and sales title.

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