Financial Transition from MS4 to PGY-1

The transition from medical school to residency is filled with many unfamiliar changes, one of the most important being financial. Medical training requires us to put off earning an income for many years in the hopes of delayed gratification. For many new residents, this may be the first time they've earned an income. Watch to learn more about an important topic often overlooked in emergency medicine. We taught effective strategies for budgeting, saving, and investing on a resident's salary to help set you up for success during this transition and beyond!

Authors

  • Paul Jansson, MD, MS

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Harvard Medical School

    Paul Jansson, MD, MS, is an emergency and critical care physician at Mass General Brigham and an assistant professor of emergency medicine (EM) at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed residency training at the Harvard Affiliated EM Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in internal medicine / critical care medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

  • Joshua Feblowitz, MD, MS

    Associate Medical Director

    Frederick Health Hospital

    Joshua Feblowitz, MD, MS, is the Associate Medical Director and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine with Sound Physicians at Frederick Health Hospital in Frederick, Maryland. He completed his residency training at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (BWH/MGH Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) Program). He is also Director of Content for the virtual simulation platform Full Code Medical. His writing has been published in the NYU Physician, Living Without, and multiple Children’s Hospital Boston publications (Dream, Vector, Pediatric Views, Thriving). His research in healthcare IT and clinical decision support has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Applied Clinical Informatics, Annals of Emergency Medicine and others. He graduated from Harvard in 2009 with a degree in American History & Literature and completed MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing in 2010. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2015. He grew up in Winchester, MA and now lives in Frederick, MD with his wife, Kasia, daughter, Maia, and rescue dog, Lucy.

  • Aaron D'Amore, MD

    Resident, Emergency Medicine

    Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency - Mass General Brigham

    Aaron D’Amore, MD, is a PGY-2 emergency medicine resident at the Mass General Brigham Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) Program. After graduating from Ohio State University in 2018, he began his journey into medicine through his work as an Intramural Training Award Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he conducted research in community health clinics, examining the effects and treatment of infectious diseases and opioid use disorder. In 2023, he graduated from medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore where he served as class president for four years. Aaron enjoys all the usual grab-bag of emergency medicine hobbies including rock climbing, snowboarding, mushroom foraging, biking to work, and hiking with his partner, Erin, and their dog, Nutmeg.

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