Financial stress is a documented contributor to clinician strain.
National Academy of Medicine, clinician well-being publications · 2024 · U.S. health care workforce literature
Built by a practicing anesthesiologist
You did everything right.
So why does money still feel behind?
WealthRounds is financial education built for clinicians - a newsletter, a self-assessment, and a full video course that connect money decisions to call schedules, training debt, burnout risk, and the long game.
Nobody teaches this in clinical training.
Clinicians commonly report debt, income volatility, and burnout pressure as linked concerns.
AAMC education debt reports and clinician well-being literature · 2023-2025 · U.S. physicians and medical trainees
The course
Practice Management and Financial Fundamentals for Career Sustainability in Healthcare
Launching October 9, 2026. Accreditation designation pending - no credit or approval claims are made here.
10
Parts
A complete financial operating system for a clinical career - from first contract to final transition.
30
Video sessions
Short and dense: 11 to 21 minutes each.
6
Wellness domains
Money mapped to burnout, autonomy, and career sustainability.
1
Practicing physician
Written and taught by someone who has been through, and is still going through, what you're going through.
The half of a clinical career that training skipped.
Ask your employer about using your education allowance.
Curriculum
A roadmap, not a reading list.
10 parts that follow a clinical career in the order it actually happens. Each session runs 11 to 21 minutes - built to be watched between cases, not after midnight.
Where you stand
Financial stress, its cognitive cost, structured self-assessment, and how fragility limits autonomy
What you carry out of training
Educational debt, and whether fellowship is worth it
The first contract
How to review an employment agreement, and how to negotiate one
How you're paid, what you owe
Employment models, independent work, tax fluency, and practicing across state lines
Protecting the career
Decision quality under stress, occupational risk, liability, and administrative systems
Practicing on your own terms
Alternative practice models, telemedicine, monetizing expertise, and cognitive bandwidth
Becoming an owner
Moving from employee to owner, and the ownership decision itself
Running the practice
Entity choice, practice vital signs, teams that stay, and intentional growth
The household
Coordinating two clinical careers in one household
The long arc out
Late-career transition, leaving clinical practice, and sustaining financial wellness
Ten parts. Thirty sessions. One system for a clinical career.
Ask your employer about using your education allowance.
Bonus: not eligible for CME/CE credit
Plus 18 bonus sessions on the personal side of your life and career.
The personal side of the same career: loans, investing, retirement accounts, insurance, taxes, real estate, and estate planning. Included with the course as a separate bonus library. Library sessions are released in stages after the course opens.
See the Library sessionsHow it works
Three steps, in order.
1
See where you stand
Take the 3-minute self-assessment - twelve prompts, six domains, and your result right away.
2
Get your roadmap
Join the waitlist and get the full domain breakdown plus the weekly Rounds and Returns letter.
3
Build the system
When the course opens, follow the 10-part roadmap from first contract to final transition.
Invest in your future self.
Ask your employer about using your education allowance.
Questions
Asked and answered.
Who is WealthRounds for?
Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses, and other licensed healthcare professionals in clinical practice, practice leadership, or practice ownership roles, at any career stage. Students and trainees through late career, who want financial structure built around clinical realities like call schedules, training debt, and burnout risk.
Is this financial advice?
No. WealthRounds is educational content only. It teaches frameworks and vocabulary so you can work with your own licensed advisors as an equal - it does not replace them.
What is the 3-minute self-assessment?
Twelve reflective prompts across six domains - reserves, debt, protection, retirement trajectory, tax efficiency, and career-stage fit. You get your overall result right away.
Who teaches the course?
Patrick Nailer, MD - a practicing anesthesiologist with more than 14 years in practice, years of physician-group leadership, and hands-on experience with the financial side of a clinical career. The course accepts no commercial support.
When does the course launch?
October 9, 2026. The price is $300. Accreditation designation is pending, so no credit or approval claims are made. Join the launch list to be notified.
Who's behind this
Patrick Nailer
Practicing anesthesiologist and author
Patrick built WealthRounds for clinicians who want practical financial structure without pretending that money decisions happen outside call schedules, training debt, family demands, or burnout risk.
Start with where you actually stand.
Twelve reflective prompts across six domains. Your overall result right away; the full breakdown when you join the Rounds and Returns waitlist.