An intern in an internal medicine program saved enough to cover a month of rent. The conversation highlights why celebrating small financial wins matters early in medical training, especially when money is tight.
I'm an intern in a categorical internal medicine program, so just finished up medical school earlier this year and graduated in May.
Okay, so you've had four paychecks in your life here if you're like most doctors. Right. So what milestone can we possibly be celebrating at this point with you? What have you accomplished?
That's right. So the milestone that I'm celebrating for today is I finally saved up enough money to cover a month of rent, which was financial goal. Yes. So, you know, hopefully this will be encouraging to some of the listeners to really start to take an interest in that, you know, really early in training or early in residency. And I think it's, it's important to celebrate those small wins. The way to build up towards, you know, that kind of DECA, millionaire status, etc. Is really by having a series of smaller goals that eventually build up over time. So, you know, this is kind of one of the, one of the very first of those goals.
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