AttendingFinancial
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Financial education built for physicians — from residency to retirement.

Attending Financial is the financial curriculum medical school skipped: interactive modules, board-style practice questions, and a full article library on PSLF, contracts, taxes, and investing. It teaches in real numbers — a 1% advisory fee on a $500,000 portfolio is $5,000 a year, every year. The first lesson of every module is free.

No credit card · Read-only Plaid connection · Subscription-funded, no commissions · Your data is never sold

The Loan Playbook · Lesson 5

PSLF: the four requirements

The right loans, employer, plan — and 120 qualifying payments. The trap: forbearance makes no progress at all.

Check your understandingReveal answer →

A year in forbearance adds zero of the 120 — payments count only on a qualifying plan, with an eligible employer, on time.

Learn

The curriculum medical school skipped.

Interactive modules built the way you learned medicine — concept diagrams, definitions on tap, high-yield emphasis, and self-checks. The first lesson of every module is free.

Money Foundations · Lesson 5 of 9

The fee you never see

A fund is just a basket of stocks or bonds. Two funds can hold the same market and still hand you very different outcomes — because a 1% annual fee quietly costs six figures over a career. The number that predicts it isn’t last year’s return; it’s the expense ratio.

expense ratio

The fund’s annual fee, skimmed from your balance every year: 0.04% is $4 per $10,000; 1% is $100.

$100,000 · same 7% market · 30 years — the only difference is the fund’s feeIndex fund · 0.04%≈ $752,600Active fund · 1.00%≈ $574,300≈ $178,000 fee drag0.04% = $4 per $10,000 per year. 1% = $100. The fee compounds against you exactly the way returns compound for you.
Check your understandingReveal answer →

1% vs 0.04% on the same $10,000: $100 vs $4 a year — a $96 difference that repeats every year and compounds against you as the balance grows.

An actual Money Foundations lesson — concept diagrams, tap-to-define terms, high-yield emphasis, and self-checks. Not a wall of text.

From the library

In-depth pieces on PSLF, contracts, and the decisions that compound across a physician’s career — written and reviewed by physicians, free to read.

PSLF & loansContractsRetirement & taxesLifestyle finance
Lifestyle Finance11 min read

Your CME Money Is Either Tax-Free or Wages, and You Should Know Which

An accountable plan under Treas. Reg. 1.62-2 never touches your W-2; a flat stipend with no receipts is taxable wages — and since Section 67(h), overspending buys you no deduction at all.

Written and reviewed by physiciansJul 19, 2026
Contracts13 min read

What a Practice Buy-In Actually Buys, and What It Should Cost

Three valuation approaches decide the number, but the compensation formula, the payment structure, and the symmetry of the buy-out decide whether you ever earn it back.

Written and reviewed by physiciansJul 18, 2026
Retirement & Taxes9 min read

Rebalancing: How Often, Where, and Why It Actually Matters

Rebalancing controls risk; it does not reliably add return. The two triggers that work, where to execute without a tax bill, and the behavioral reason to write the rule down.

Written and reviewed by physiciansJul 17, 2026
Lifestyle Finance12 min read

Part-Time Pays 60 Percent and Rarely Means 60 Percent

Salary is the only thing that scales automatically with the FTE fraction — call, inbox, panel size, benefits eligibility and malpractice tail each follow their own rule.

Written and reviewed by physiciansJul 19, 2026
Contracts12 min read

Your Locums Stipend Is Tax-Free Only If You Have a Tax Home

The tax home follows your work, not your family, and a physician who works locums full time can end up with no tax home at all and every housing dollar taxable.

Written and reviewed by physiciansJul 18, 2026
Lifestyle Finance12 min read

The Ten-Minute Pay Stub Audit, Line by Line

Social Security withholding is supposed to stop mid-year and the 0.9% surtax is supposed to start, both on the same stub — and almost nobody checks either one.

Written and reviewed by physiciansJul 19, 2026
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Track

Then watch it show up in your numbers.

The dashboard applies what the curriculum teaches — net worth, PSLF progress, wRVU pacing, and this year's tax-advantaged space, in one view.

Apply what you learn

The dashboard tracks what the curriculum teaches.

Every lesson has a place to land — PSLF payments, paycheck withholding, net worth. Illustrated with sample numbers; your real picture, once you connect.

[A] ATTENDINGFINANCIALDashboardAccountsCurriculumwRVU TrackerPaycheck DecoderPSLF GuardianAI AdvisorFinancial WellnessHouseholdPREMIUM TIERACGood morning.Your finances at a glance.NET WORTH↑ +11.2% YTD$428,000+$43,000 year to dateJanFebMarAprMayJunASSETS$525KLIABILITIES−$97K84% equityof $622K totalView breakdown ›88FINANCIAL WELLNESSYou’re strong.Next: max your 403(b) by year-end +4 pts

Your net worth, at a glance

Every account — assets and debts — resolved into one number that moves as they do, with a six-month trend and year-to-date change. The category breakdown (retirement, brokerage, cash vs. mortgage, loans) is available on the Premium tier. Your Financial Wellness Score lives just below it.

Figures shown are illustrative.

The whole picture

Four numbers most physicians track in four places. Here they live in one.

Net worth

Every account — assets and debts — resolved into one number that moves as they do.

No more adding up a 403(b), student loans, and a brokerage in your head.

PSLF progress

Your qualifying-payment count and forgiveness projection, tracked month to month.

Including through employer changes, IDR switches, and deferments — the moves that reset most physicians’ counts.

wRVU & contract pacing

Your production tracked against your contract thresholds in real time, all year.

So the year-end bonus is a number you watched build — never a surprise.

Tax-advantaged space

401(k), 403(b), backdoor Roth, and HSA room measured against this year’s limits.

The most consistently missed money in physician finance.

The dashboard pulls these passively through a read-only Plaid connection on Premium. The Free membership gives you the manual-entry tools — so you can see how all of it works before you connect an account or pay anything.

Bring what you already have

Already track it in a spreadsheet? Paste it once. Never open it again.

No templates required. Drop your current tracking sheet exactly as it is — any columns, any order. The AI reads it into clean, typed accounts you can track from then on.

net-worth-2026.xlsxExample
Fidelity 403b187,400retirement
Ally savings42,150savings
Student loans-238,000loan
Vanguard brokerage61,200investment
HSA9,840hsa
AI reads it
Your accounts
Fidelity 403(b)$187,400
Ally savings$42,150
Student loans−$238,000
Vanguard brokerage$61,200
HSA$9,840

You review every row before anything is saved. Part of the Premium tier.

Advise

Ask the question you’d ask a colleague who knows money.

The AI advisor answers on your actual numbers. The same membership reads your contract clause by clause and decodes every line of your paystub.

AI advisor

Ask the questions you'd usually pay an advisor by the hour for.

Your AI advisor doesn't just talk — it runs the math on your actual numbers and checks current rates and rules before it answers. Ask things like:

Am I underpaid for my specialty and region?

Does PSLF or refinancing make more sense for my loans?

Am I using all my tax-advantaged space this year?

Why does my paycheck look so different from my contract salary?

How much house can I realistically afford on my contract?

Runs your PSLF forecastCompares refinance vs. PSLFChecks your tax-advantaged spaceEstimates your federal + state taxSearches current rates & rules

AI Advisor — Example Response

I earn too much for a Roth IRA. Can I just do a backdoor Roth?

You can — but check your pro-rata exposure first. The IRS pro-rata rule (IRC §408(d)(2)) treats every traditional, SEP, and SIMPLE IRA you hold as one pool when you convert. If you still have a $50,000 rollover IRA from residency and convert a $7,500 nondeductible contribution, only about 13% of that conversion comes out tax-free — the rest is taxed. The usual fix is to roll the $50,000 into your employer 401(k) first, then convert the $7,500 cleanly. Most people do the conversion without checking this and owe tax they did not expect.

Illustrative example. Once your accounts are connected, the answer uses your real balances.

The advisor explains your numbers and the rules behind them — education to decide with, not personalized investment, tax, or legal advice.

Your questions use your actual connected numbers — not generic examples.

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We work for you. Here’s what that means in practice.

The most expensive advice is the kind you never see itemized. A 1%-of-assets fee is charged every year — in up markets and down — and compounds against the very balance you’re trying to grow. The structure below is why we never charge it.

How they make money

Traditional advisors

Commissions, product sales, and a percentage of the assets they manage for you.

Attending Financial

We only make money when you subscribe.

The conflict

Traditional advisors

They earn more when you buy the products they recommend.

Attending Financial

We have nothing to sell you but the software.

Your data

Traditional advisors

Often shared, sold, or used to market more products to you.

Attending Financial

Never sold.

Medical literacy

Traditional advisors

Generic high-earner advice that ignores PSLF, RVUs, and physician contracts.

Attending Financial

Built around physician income, PSLF, RVUs, and contracts.

This describes common industry incentive structures, not the conduct of any specific firm or individual.

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One percent of what, exactly?

Not of your income — of everything you have, every year, including the growth of the dollars it already took. Move the fee and watch what it costs.

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Pricing

One membership. The whole curriculum, and the tools that apply it.

Premium is one membership at one set of capabilities. The resident and student prices exist because a training salary is a training salary — not because the product is smaller.

Free to start — no credit card. Subscription-funded, so we work for you and no one else.

The standard financial advisor charges 1% of assets under management — every year, in up markets and down. On a $500,000 portfolio, that’s $5,000 a year. A membership here is $149 a year, and we have nothing to sell you.

Free

$0

No card, no expiry

The first lesson of every module, and the tools to start.

  • The first lesson of every module — all 60
  • The flagship articles, start to finish
  • Every other article opens to its first 30%
  • 25 question-bank questions
  • Manual tracking dashboard — up to 3 accounts
  • PSLF timeline
  • Refinancing, moonlighting, and paycheck calculators
  • 3 AI advisor questions included
  • 1 contract analysis a year
  • No ads. No data selling. Ever.
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Premium

$149/year

or $16/month

about $12 a month

vs. ~$5,000/year for a traditional 1%-AUM advisor

The whole curriculum, and the tools that apply it.

  • Every lesson in all 60 modules
  • The complete article library and question bank
  • Plaid auto-sync — accounts refreshed nightly
  • Live net worth, retirement pacing, and PSLF alerts
  • wRVU & contract pacing
  • Tax-advantaged space tracking
  • Unlimited AI advisor
  • Household planning and multi-state tax intelligence
  • Real estate / private equity ledgers
  • 10 contract analyses a year
  • Priority support
Start Premium — $149/year

30-day money-back guarantee

If it's not useful in the first 30 days, email us and we'll refund you.

Premium, monthly$16/month

The same membership, billed month to month.

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Priced for training

Resident and fellow

$79/year

about $7 a month

Full Premium, priced for a training salary.

For physicians in residency or fellowship. Requires your NPI and a confirmation that you are currently in training.

Continue — Resident and fellow

Medical student

Free

The whole curriculum, free while you are in school.

For students at an accredited medical school. Requires a school email address, confirmed once a year.

Continue — Medical student

Cancel anytime. No tier is tied to your career stage except the two priced for training.

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