We spend countless hours learning how to save lives. We spend zero hours learning how to save money.
We started Clinic to Capital after realizing how little medicine teaches us about money. Most of our time is spent learning how to care for patients and putting in endless hours of studying, but almost nothing is said about student debt or what financial life actually looks like during and after medical school. Like most other medical students, we were trying to figure it out on our own, and we thought it might help to share what we’re learning along the way with others in the same position.
Why Clinic to Capital Exists
Our main goal with this blog is to educate people within the medical field about finance and how they can better manage and save their money. This blog is not only meant for doctors. We want to share information about medicine and finance with people at every stage of the medical journey, from pre-med students to medical students, residents, attending physicians, and even into retirement.
Here are a few of the main goals we hope to achieve with this blog:
- To make financial topics easier to understand without complicated language or overwhelming detail.
- To share practical advice that students and doctors can actually use in their everyday lives.
- To create a space where people in medicine can feel more confident and informed about their financial future.
Hi, we are ...
Akeel and Tanay, two medical students currently studying in Ireland after growing up in Toronto, Canada. We entered medicine through a direct-entry six-year program straight out of high school at the age of 18. Like many other students starting this path so early, we knew almost nothing about finance or how to properly manage money. Most of what we know came from figuring things out ourselves. This blog is simply a place for us to share what we are learning and to help make the financial side of the medical journey feel a little less confusing for others in a similar position as us.