USA Funds offers financial-literacy materials for married students, medical students
Nation's leading education-loan guarantor enhances USA Funds Life Skills curriculum
INDIANAPOLIS — USA Funds®, the nation's leading education-loan guarantor, announces the introduction of new financial-literacy materials to address the special needs of married students and medical students. The new components expand the USA Funds Life Skills® curriculum for graduate and professional students and other adult learners. USA Funds Life Skills equips postsecondary institutions to teach their students to manage their time and money wisely while they are on campus and after graduation
"Students who have to balance graduate studies with family life face special financial and relationship challenges, and the pressures of medical residency are well known," said Denise B. Feser, USA Funds vice president, customer relations. "These new USA Funds Life Skills materials help students cope with these issues so that they can successfully complete their programs of study and training."
USA Funds now offers a complete module, "Connect as a Couple — Confronting Relationship Challenges Together," that offers interactive exercises, advice and resources for married students. The module covers key topics for married students, such as how to:
- Adjust to their new roles and tasks while one or both are in school.
- Anticipate and manage their financial challenges as a couple.
- Negotiate time for each other.
- Make decisions as a couple.
The other new component of USA Funds Life Skills, "How Do I Survive During My Residency?" is an interactive CD-ROM that offers medical students and residents tips for coping with the financial challenges and pressures they encounter during residency.
The CD-ROM discusses key personal-finance considerations, including managing student loans during residency, estimating personal income and living costs, and charting a time line for key issues important to residents. The program also provides information about factors to consider in selecting a residency program, tips for maintaining physical and emotional health, and suggestions for maintaining healthy relationships despite the demands of residency. The CD features a "life story" in which a resident explains how she copes with the challenges associated with her residency.
USA Funds Life Skills materials for graduate and professional students are available at no cost to postsecondary institutions that use USA Funds as their primary guarantor and to all minority-serving postsecondary institutions. For additional information, visit the USA Funds Web site.