New USA Funds Life Skills Component Helps Medical Students Prepare for Residency

USA Funds^® has introduced a new component of its award-winning financial-literacy program USA Funds Life Skills^® to address the challenges faced by medical residents.

Minimodule 2 — "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 offers advice for surviving residency, including the 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 offers a “life story” in which a resident explains how she copes with the challenges associated with her residency. The program also lists important print and online resources for residents.

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 institutions.

For more information about USA Funds Life Skills, contact your debt-management consultant. You can order USA Funds Life Skills materials through the USA Funds Web site. Please allow two weeks for delivery of ordered items.