Table 2. Comfort levels and interests among residents reporting previous education in personal finance.

PF: Personal finance.

Likert-type responses reported as median (interquartile-range).

^aPrevious education defined as either lectures or course work completed in medical school or residency.

	Comfort with personal finance topics			Interest in additional learning
	No previous PF education	Previous PF educationa		No previous PF education	Previous PF educationa
	N = 99	N = 45	P Value	N = 99	N = 45	P Value
Budgeting	5[3–6]	5[4–6]	0.014	5[4–6]	5[3–6]	0.372
Loan repayment	3[2–5]	5[4–5]	0.001	5[3–7]	5[4–​​​​​​​6]	0.825
Disability insurance	2[2–​​​​​​​4]	3[2–​​​​​​​5]	0.007	5[5–​​​​​​​7]	5[4–​​​​​​​7]	0.441
Life insurance	2[1–​​​​​​​4]	3[2–​​​​​​​4]	0.078	5[5–​​​​​​​6]	5[4–​​​​​​​7]	0.704
Investing	2[1–​​​​​​​4]	3[2–​​​​​​​5]	0.045	6[5–​​​​​​​7]	6[5–​​​​​​​7]	0.860
Home buying	2[2–​​​​​​​4]	2[2–​​​​​​​5]	0.823	6[5–​​​​​​​7]	6[5–​​​​​​​7]	0.381
Retirement planning	2[1–​​​​​​​5]	4[3–​​​​​​​5]	0.009	6[5–​​​​​​​7]	6[6–​​​​​​​7]	0.735