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
The most expensive mistake of your career
won't happen at the bedside.
It happens in the contract, the call schedule and the buy-in. 23 short sessions on the business side of practice, up to 8 CME credits, built by a practicing anesthesiologist.
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
Open now. Designated by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™, 8 nursing contact hours, or 8 AAPA Category 1 CME credits.
8
Parts
A complete financial operating system for a clinical career - from first contract to final transition.
23
Video sessions
Short and dense: 11 to 20 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.
Curriculum
A roadmap, not a reading list.
8 parts that follow a clinical career in the order it actually happens. Each session runs 11 to 20 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
Protecting the career
Decision quality under stress, occupational risk, liability, and administrative systems
Practicing on your own terms
Alternative practice models, telemedicine, and cognitive bandwidth
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
8 parts. 23 sessions. One system for a clinical career.
Bonus: not eligible for CME/CE credit
Plus25 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, estate planning, and the business of owning your own work. Included with the course.
See the Library sessionsHow it works
Start today. Learn at your own pace.
1
Start where you like
Dive straight in with your CME allowance, or take the 3-minute self-assessment first to see where you stand.
2
Learn between cases
23 sessions of 11 to 20 minutes, each with a one-page worksheet and a four-question post-test. Your progress follows you from phone to laptop.
3
Claim your credit
Finish the sessions and post-tests, complete the evaluation, and claim up to 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Invest in your future self.
Pay with your CME allowance. 23 short sessions, up to 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
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.
Does it carry CME credit?
Yes. The price is $300. Designated by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™, 8 nursing contact hours, or 8 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. The full statements are in the activity information on the course page.
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.