Jim DahleEmergency Physician and Financial Educator for Medical Professionals

ENT Pays Off $300k Student Loans #doctor #physicianfinance #money #medicaldebt #personalfinance

Name: ENT Pays Off $300k Student Loans #doctor #physicianfinance #money #medicaldebt #personalfinance
Uploaded: 2024-06-24T07:00:03Z
Channel: Jim Dahle
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24 Jun 2024

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This is a YouTube video titled "ENT Pays Off $300k Student Loans #doctor #physicianfinance #money #medicaldebt #personalfinance" containing a conversation between two speakers discussing the milestone of paying off nearly $300,000 in student loans within seven years after medical training. The discussion focuses on the financial challenges faced during medical school and residency. The speakers are not identified as Jim Dahle.

So I am an ENT that's seven years out of training in the Southeast United States.
Okay, let's talk about what milestone we're going to celebrate today with you. What have you done?
I have paid off my student loans which were just short of 300k.
$300,000 in less than 7 years out of training. Very well done. You should be very proud of yourself.
Feels pretty good.
There was a time when you looked at med school and said, if I do this, I'm going to owe $300,000. Do you remember what was going through your head back then?
Yeah, it didn't really feel like real money, to be perfectly honest. The amount of it I don't think ever really kind of sunk in until I think until residency, until I realized that my income based repayments were not covering even the interest.