The White Coat Investor Champions Program began in 2020 with the goal of putting The White Coat Investor’s Guide for Students into the hands of every first-year medical and dental student in the US. We see this program as one of the most important things we do as a company, because medical school is such an impactful time for students to become financially literate.
Even though the book is primarily focused on medical and dental students, we expanded the program in October 2023 to include US-based PA, NP, Pharmacy, Dental, and Medical/DO Schools.
When we began this program, we quickly realized that shipping books to individual students would not be cost-effective or sustainable. Instead, we enlist a volunteer “Champion” student from the first-year class of every eligible school physically located in the US to distribute all of the books for their class.
The Champion program typically runs from September through February of each year. You can sign up for our free monthly newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the announcement.
The Champion role is quite simple. Here's all you have to do:
If you sign up to be the WCI Champion for your class, you receive the following:
If you sign up to be the WCI Champion for your class, you receive the following:
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Schools must be Medical/DO, Dental, PA, NP, or Pharmacy School.
We only accept one Champion per class. If you see your school listed on the application, someone from your school has already applied and been selected.
Schools must be in-person. Because books have to be passed out in person, online-only programs, where students only meet virtually, are not eligible.
The WCI Champion Program is only for students located in the US.
This is only for first-year students. We will not make any exceptions to that. If your school didn’t participate during your first year and you really want a copy of the book, it's only $9.99 on Kindle and around $30 at Amazon.
The White Coat Investor's Guide for Students is Dr. Jim Dahle’s longest, most comprehensive book. It is composed of three parts: a section for students, a section for residents (especially interns), and a huge section on becoming financially literate. If you want a book that teaches you money, that third section is it. It teaches you about investments, retirement accounts, taxes, and financial history. It even teaches you the calculations that you need to know how to do. It's a great book to read now and then again as a new graduate or intern.
The main theme: Don't spend money you don't have. Welcome to personal finance. While the book doesn't go into a huge amount of detail about how to invest money that students don't actually have (and the largest focus there is on stocks, bonds, and the mutual funds that contain them), it does mention 15 asset classes ranging from CDs to Beanie Babies.
Our goal each year is to distribute this book to 90% or more of the eligible students in the country. We haven’t reached that number yet so please help us by volunteering to be a WCI Champion!
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Over the years, we have had more than 520 Champions participate in the program. Here are some of the WCI Champions with their classmates.
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