Financial Advice for Residents and Fellows

The journal Resident & Staff Physician has a 3 part series called Financial Consult for the Severely Anemic Resident Wallet:

1. Invest in Yourself

2. Choosing the Right Investment Fund

3. Reduce Your Tax Burden

The authors are Wender Hwang, MD, a Chief Resident in EM at Loma Linda University and Erik W. Thurnher, MD, CFP, ER Physician at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group.

Further reading:
What is the right specialty/fellowship for you? Take a test to see
Buy or to rent? The New York Times shows the answer. Blogging Stocks

What is like to be a FP, IM, EM, ObGyn (put your desired specialty here) doctor?

The Student Doctor Network forum has recently stared a series of ‘20-question’ interviews with physicians in each of the major medical specialties. There are good questions like "Describe a typical day at work", "Now that you’re in your specialty, do you find that it met your expectations?", "Are you satisfied with your income?", "What do you like most and least about your specialty?", "Where do you see your specialty in 10 years?"

Emergency Medicine
20 Questions: Dale Woolridge, MD/PhD [EM]

OB-Gyn
20 Questions: Andrew Beckwith, MD [OB/Gyn]

Family Medicine
20 Questions: Charles Vega, MD [Family Medicine]

Allergy/Immunology
What's It like to Be An Allergist? from the appropriately-named Achoo! Blog. This is not from the SDN series but it is on the same topic.

Further reading:
What is the right specialty/fellowship for you? Take a test to see
Hunting Season. Dr. Wes, 08/2007.
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

What is the right specialty/fellowship for you? Take a test to see

There are 2 options:

- Check this funny algorithm in BMJ. Just do not take it too seriously. Read more in Physician, know thyself, written by a resident at Yale School of Medicine.

- Take the formal aptitude test by the University of Virginia (15 minutes/130 questions): Medical Specialty Aptitude Test (MSAT)

Further reading:
Financial Advice for Residents and Fellows
What is like to be a FP, IM, EM, ObGyn (put your desired specialty here) doctor?
Read more about different fellowships at InternalMedicineDoctor.blogspot.com: an ER doctor lists the pros and cons of each specialty.
Hunting Season. Dr. Wes, 08/2007.
Related:
How the Match Works(’Cause everyone’s been asking, “So did you get a job?”). Over My Med Body, 02/2008.
Image source: sxc.hu

Updated: 02/02/2008