What do you buy with your educational stipend?!?

[Smists]

I'm a pgy 1, I spent a fair amount on electronics and joining professional organizations. Got a little left over this year... and not sure what to get. And what about the following years?

What do you recommend, whether books? Classes? Lectures? Certifications? Anything fun and exciting?

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[FlowRate]

Sounds like you get a pretty large educational stipend.

We only get like $300. Doesn't even cover UWorld Qbank, not to mention they didn't pay for our Step 3. (hint hint... things to use your huge stipend on if they're not already covered.)

 

[Unico]

A friend of mine managed to save up enough in her 4 years of medical school for a trip after graduation (and before intern year).

When I asked her how the heck that was possible she said that she went to Bali with friends -- which Bali is supposedly really cheap.


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[Unico]

hint hint... things to use your huge stipend on if they're not already covered.

^this. Save it in an "oh ****" account -- e.g. "Oh ****, how am I going to pay for step 2 AND have enough money to eat?"

Good luck!




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[Lanekane88]

The best things you can do with that money to buy some books. Because this will help your to pass your leisure time and you could learn a lot of things by reading different kind of books.

 

[FlowRate]

A friend of mine managed to save up enough in her 4 years of medical school for a trip after graduation (and before intern year).

When I asked her how the heck that was possible she said that she went to Bali with friends -- which Bali is supposedly really cheap.


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That sounds like a rather unusual situation.

 

[michiganpsych08]

^this. Save it in an "oh ****" account -- e.g. "Oh ****, how am I going to pay for step 2 AND have enough money to eat?"

Good luck!




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I think the OP is referring to the educational stipend you get in residency ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[clausewitz2]

That sounds like a rather unusual situation.

The kinds of people for whom Bali is a very cheap vacation also generally have financing available from M&P Bank (formerly Mater&Pater).

I mean, they could have been truly spendy and gone to Gstaad.

 

[sazerac]

I mean, they could have been truly spendy and gone to Gstaad.

Or they could go a bit further north to Sweden, and give us all a first hand account of "uppgivenhetssyndrom". That would be educational!