About

 
 

ScrubMoney was founded by a team that included doctors, a resident, and a medical student with this mission: To help healthcare professionals achieve financial wellness through tailored education.

Financial wellness doesn't happen by accident, even for professionals making six-figure incomes. Physician burnout is on the rise. And with the majority of doctors who feel burned out expressing a need for a higher compensation, it’s clear we need a way to achieve financial stability and confidence.

 
 
 

We’re always hiring talented, mission-driven people. Join us in our mission to help physicians create a stable life foundation.

 
 

Our team

 
 

Miriam Bay Sweeney is a product designer and product manager. She’s worked around user experience for healthcare workers ever since working in her position as a trainer at Epic and is especially interested in the mental health of medical students and residents.

Andy Harms is an entrepreneur with a background in finance. His previous focus was on anticipating and analyzing changes in public policy that will impact the financial markets.

Rufus Sweeney is a psychiatry resident at the University of Utah. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He designed, implemented, and helped teach one of the first personal finance courses for medical students, which is now taught for elective credit by the medical school.

Dr. James Barrett is a surgeon in Utah. He completed his residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been researching physician personal finance for several years. In addition to ScrubMoney, he’s developed two mobile apps to improve patient care.

Dr. Bruce Harms is a professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Division of Colorectal Surgery. He received his MBA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and has been researching physician personal finance for several years.

 
 
 
 

So what’s the catch?

You’re skeptical of anyone who says they want to help you with your money, and you should be. In fact, feeling targeted by financial professionals was part of the reason we decided to start ScrubMoney.

Here’s what it looks like from our side. Rufus, one of our co-founders, was the go-to resource for many of his friends about personal finance, especially dealing with med school debt. Dr. Harms is known broadly for his excellence in colorectal surgery, but to his peers and residents especially, he’s known as the guy who can help you figure out your financial plans and money issues. When the two met, they decided it would be a good idea to combine their efforts and scale the education that was so sorely needed by their fellow doctors.

So we built this to scale so that individuals can get the exact financial education they need exactly when they need it without eating into Dr. Harm’s OR time or Rufus’s study time. And here’s how we make it sustainable:

  • We make sure the education on the app is straightforward and specific to doctors. Where great content already exists to cover a certain topic, we pull that content in. Where that content doesn’t exist, we recorded and created that content on our own. And that’s all free to you.

  • We know we can’t legally give financial advice and some people are going to need it. So we’re making it possible for you to find the personalized advice you need (if you need it) on our Advice screen. We vet financial advisors, tax experts, etc. and make sure they meet a certain standard of qualification and legally-binding responsibility to do whatever’s best for you (in other words, fiduciary), and then we make them available for you to choose to reach out to. We get a finder’s fee from those professionals if you reach out to them to explore working together.

  • Finally, we want to be sure as many people as can benefit from ScrubMoney can access it, so we make a ScrubMoney subscription available to healthcare organizations, from medical schools and residency programs to medical societies, hospitals, and other employers of physicians. Subscribed organizations can not only provide premium features to all their people, but they can also track anonymized progress of their organization over time and watch their people flourish into financial confidence and stability.

So there you have it. Our master plan is to make healthcare more stable by making sure the healthcare professionals who serve us are stable and happy. You found us out. Now go try the app and tell your friends and healthcare administrators that there’s a way to get a financial education that’s designed to help you thrive.