Beginning your financial journey and learning about personal finance can seem awfully overwhelming. But instead of trying to solve the entire puzzle at once, it’ll be easier (for your mind and for your psyche) to break it down into sections that are more easily digestible.
Here are ways to improve your chances of matching into a residency program and what to do if you do not match. When dealing with a medical school catastrophe the best thing to do is to prevent it. Any med student who is paying attention should see this type of risk at least a couple of years out.
It seems a shame to make a physician salary and spend 80 years living like you're a resident. Luckily, you don't have to do this to be financially successful. You do have to be relatively frugal.
Retire Secure, by James Lange, is the best financial book I have read in the last year. I recommend you read it. However, it is not the first financial book you should read.
One of the best antidotes I have found to feeling pessimistic about the future is the optimization of a doctor’s personal financial situation, including these four suggestions.
Having a high income has its downsides, especially with regards to tax rates. But a low income is no piece of cake either.
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Pay off your mortgage instantaneously, without raiding retirement accounts. Using these steps will put money in a relatively liquid taxable account to use to pay off the entire mortgage.
Should you go for forgiveness or try to refinance student loans? When should you pay off debt vs. invest? Here are the 10 best ways manage your debt.
For those dissolving their marriage, if you follow these 4 to-dos, you will likely avoid the most common (and costly) mistakes people make with their use-property and retirement accounts during the separation of assets.
As a general rule, I recommend against residents buying a home for a number of reasons. However, there are exceptions to every general rule. More recently, I have become aware of a program that makes...
We wish to grow into our income slowly, but our aim is not to accumulate money for the sake of accumulating money. Here we discuss guidelines for spending money on unnecessary things. We fully intend to eventually spend the vast majority of the money we earn and save.
[FOUNDER'S NOTE BY DR. JIM DAHLE: Long-term readers will note I've been blogging for over 3 1/2 years and there are over 600 pages on this website. None of them have been written by my wife, and it's...
Gregory Karp's Living Rich by Spending Smart a great read and very useful for anyone having trouble saving 20%+ of their gross income. I cannot recommend it more highly. Unless your main financial issue is overcoming your cheapskate ways, you need to read those.
The Medical Entrepreneur is really two books in one; a guide for physicians desiring to go into solo practice and how to be an entrepreneur on the side. A must-read for doctors interested in either of those things.
Waiving your mortgage contingency may be worthwhile to make your offer more competitive, but be aware of the risk of losing your earnest money.
Remember that in personal finance, the word personal is as important as the word finance. It comes first in the phrase for a reason. Here are the key lessons that have made a difference to me in the...
Medical school may not have taught you about money, but we will.
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