FIRST for Pre-Health Advisors
Helping Your Students Help Themselves
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Financing a medical education can be a challenge—but making
informed decisions early in the process will pave the way. FIRST
for Medical Education offers resources and information that can
help you counsel students to:
- Evaluate the most favorable terms and conditions available on
their student loans
- Create a plan to responsibly manage and repay their student
loan debt
- Understand the long-range impact of their financial decisions
- Become well-informed consumers
- Practice healthy financial habits
- Expand their financial literacy
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The FIRST program offers:
A-Z Reference List
A list of available tools and resources located on the FIRST Web site
FIRST Facts
Fact sheets on a variety of financial aid related topics. Facts are designed
to reduce often confusing or complex topics to the basics.
Financing Medical Education
Presentation (PPT, 24 Slides)
You are welcome to download the presentation and use it and the speaker's
notes for information sessions regarding financing medical education with
pre-health/pre-med students. Feel free to add additional slides, but please
refrain from editing, in any way, the slides copy written by the AAMC.
Resources
Guides, publications and Web resources to help you understand financial
aid.
Tools
Interactive Web tools, including financial calculators and an interactive
budget worksheet.
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