Healthy Money

Making a Successful Transition from Resident to Attending

Money advice and coaching for new doctors in a format that is easy to read and understand. Residency can be challenging enough with the long hours, delivering high quality patient care and then devoting most of your spare moments preparing for in-service exams. Personal errands, getting sleep and maybe getting a little respite time here and there make it a challenge to find time for other important tasks like managing your finances. The financial services industry are delivering seminars at the hospital, but are they there for advising or sales? Sometimes it can be a challenge to tell the difference. Three important money considerations as a physician makes the transition from Resident or Fellow to Attending Physician are: - Protection Matters - Debt and Cash Flow Management - No Free Lunch In this book, these three topics are delivered through the eyes of resident physicians (fictional, but based on real life) Mary and Jennifer. There is a summary of actions the reader can take based on the information shared in the section.