Medical school is hard enough without adding money stress to the mix. But the truth is, a lot of us make the same financial mistakes during our training—mistakes that cost us thousands of dollars and years of unnecessary stress. We’re not talking about small things like buying coffee or ordering takeout once in a while.

When we started medical school, we were focused on one thing: learning medicine. We thought about how we’d survive anatomy, pass our exams, and eventually become good doctors. What we didn’t think much about was money. We knew medical school was expensive. We knew we’d have loans to deal with eventually. But the actual financial

Let us be honest with you: when we started medical school, we had no idea what we were doing when it came to money. We could tell you the steps of glycolysis. But ask us about student loan repayment strategies, or what a Roth IRA was, or how to actually budget on a tight income?