Systematic review of personal finance training for physicians and a proposed curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many physicians complete medical school and graduate medical education (GME) burdened by high debt and financial illiteracy. This places them at increased risk for ill-informed financial decisions, which can result in increased stress and anxiety and a lower quality of life. Furthermore, financial concerns impact physicians' specialty selections and may partly explain the scarcity of primary care practitioners. In response, medical wellness programmes have increasingly sought to offer personal finance education, but there is little guidance on optimal curricula. Our objective is to systematically review the existing literature examining physician financial literacy curricula and to recommend a standardised personal finance curriculum.

Methods

This review used the

SUBMITTER: Igu JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806052 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature