Pursuing a medical education, especially in Ontario, is a costly endeavor. Furthermore, high tuition costs and debt have been shown to disproportionately affect trainees from lower-income and/or rural backgrounds and may have a negative impact on students’ academic performance and mental health. Ontario medical schools, however, devote minimal time to financial literacy. To remedy this gap,, we recommend that undergraduate medical education incorporate mandatory financial literacy training and teaching on billing and remuneration into their curricula, support the development of extracurricular activities in personal finance and debt relief strategies, and consider providing students with access to one-on-one meetings with either a hired financial advisor and/or faculty with financial expertise for financial advisement
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