This is one of those questions where the answer is yes — but with a pretty important caveat. Credit cards get a bad reputation, and in medicine that reputation is somewhat earned. Credit card debt is one of the most commonly cited financial mistakes among medical students, and it is easy to see why. [1]
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We have talked a lot on this blog about why budgeting matters during medical school. But knowing you should budget and actually doing it are two different things, and a big part of what makes the difference is having a tool that is easy enough to use that you will actually stick with it. We
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When we started medical school, we knew we were taking on debt. What we did not fully appreciate was how differently that number lands depending on where you study, how you funded it, and what happens to the balance in the years between graduation and your first real paycheque. Most people have a vague sense
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One thing that surprised us when we started learning about personal finance in medicine is how different the financial journey of a doctor looks compared to almost every other profession. Most people graduate, get a job, and start earning a real income in their early twenties. Doctors do not. We spend years accumulating debt before
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Financial planning is one of those things that sounds like it is meant for people who already have money. When we first started hearing about it, our instinct was that it did not really apply to us yet. We were students living on loans, not people with salaries and investment portfolios. What was there to
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This is one of those concepts that sounds simple when you first hear it but takes a while to actually sink in. We learned about compound interest early on when we started reading about personal finance, and honestly our first reaction was something like — okay, so your money grows over time, got it. But
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When we started medical school, investing was the last thing on our minds. We were too busy trying to survive anatomy and figure out how our student loans actually worked. Nobody around us was talking about it, and nothing in our curriculum came close to covering it. But the more we started learning about personal
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When people ask what medical school abroad costs, they are almost always asking about tuition. It is the number on the offer letter, it is the number in the brochure, and it is the number everybody quotes back to their parents. It is also, in our experience, somewhere between half and two thirds of the
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The short answer to “can I invest as a medical student” is yes. Nothing stops you. You can open a brokerage account this afternoon. But that is not really the question, and answering it that way skips the part that actually matters. Almost every medical student we know is living on money they borrowed. The
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Budgeting sounds boring. We get it. When you’re trying to survive anatomy lab and memorize the Krebs cycle, the last thing you want to do is sit down and track every dollar you spend. But here’s the thing—not having a budget is way more stressful than having one. Without a budget, you’re constantly wondering if
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