How Do Med Students Make Ends Meet?

eastcoascrazy
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:32:07 +0000

My husband and I were married during med school. I worked full time as a teacher. He took an HPSP Scholarship, which pays a living stipend along with the tuition. He also worked one or two evening shifts answering the phones at the Regional Poison Control Center, a job he had started during Pharmacy School in the same city.

He finished medical school with no monetary debt. He owed time as a physician with the military, which he served as a Naval Flight Surgeon. He learned to fly helicopters, and we lived in Pensacola Florida and Hawaii during his payback years. He had a blast. So did I.