George brings a health-system perspective
The conversation draws on clinical practice, national medical assessment, executive leadership, teaching and the experience of building PassGP.
Podcast conversation
An honest conversation about medicine, leadership and money.
A/Prof George Eskander joined Dr Dev Raga for a wide-ranging conversation about medical careers, leadership, workplace culture, financial wellbeing and why PassGP began.
Listen to the episodeA practical, personal discussion for doctors thinking about the shape of a medical career and the life around it.Listen to the conversation →
Inside the conversation
Medicine, leadership, money and the life around them.
A/Prof George Eskander joined Dr Dev Raga for episode 444 of the personal-finance podcast on 12 November 2024. The conversation moves beyond exam preparation into the professional and financial decisions doctors are rarely taught to discuss openly.
They explore George's path through clinical medicine and executive leadership, doctor pay and workplace culture, investing philosophy, personal money lessons and the experiences that led to PassGP.
Why this works
Two kinds of support. One easier next step.
A podcast conversation about medical careers, doctor wellbeing, leadership, workplace culture and the story behind PassGP.
Dev Raga makes finance human
The podcast creates space for doctors to talk plainly about money, professional choices and the realities that sit behind a medical career.
A practical path
A conversation in three chapters.
Listen straight through or begin with the part closest to the decisions you are making now.
The medical career
Clinical work, executive leadership and the culture doctors experience inside health systems.
The financial life
Doctor pay, investing principles and the personal money decisions that sit around a demanding career.
The origin of PassGP
Why capable doctors were losing marks, and how teaching examination technique became a new professional chapter.
What doctors receive
Practical value, not simply two names together.
The partnership is designed to make a real professional step clearer, easier to access or more sustainable.
A medical career in context
Hear how clinical work, leadership, family, money and professional identity influence one another.
Workplace culture
Explore the responsibility leaders carry for the wellbeing and development of doctors around them.
Why PassGP began
Learn how seeing capable doctors struggle with examination technique became the starting point for PassGP.
Who this helps
For doctors thinking beyond the next roster or examination.
- Doctors beginning to make longer-term financial decisions
- Clinicians considering leadership or a different career direction
- Anyone interested in the personal story behind PassGP
PassGP + Dev Raga
A bigger conversation about a doctor's career.
Listen to the episode with Dev Raga, then explore the people and purpose behind PassGP.
Your Questions Answered
Which Dev Raga episode is featured?
The featured conversation is episode 444 of Dr Dev Raga’s personal-finance podcast, published on 12 November 2024. A/Prof George Eskander joins Dr Raga to discuss medical careers, leadership, workplace culture and the professional and financial decisions that sit around a demanding career.
The episode draws on George’s experience in clinical practice, national medical assessment, executive leadership, teaching and building PassGP. You can open the featured episode through Listen to the conversation on Acast.
What topics are discussed in the episode?
The discussion brings together three strands: medical careers, financial life and the origin of PassGP. George and Dr Dev Raga explore clinical work and executive leadership alongside doctor pay, investing philosophy, personal money lessons and the culture doctors experience within health systems.
The conversation also considers how clinical work, leadership, family, money and professional identity influence one another, including the responsibility leaders carry for doctors’ wellbeing and development. Its PassGP strand looks at how seeing capable doctors struggle with examination technique led to a new direction in George’s work.
How does the episode connect with the story of PassGP?
George describes seeing capable doctors lose marks because they struggled with examination technique. Teaching that technique became a new professional chapter and the starting point for PassGP, drawing on his experience in clinical practice, national medical assessment, executive leadership and teaching.
Who might find the conversation relevant?
The episode is relevant to doctors beginning to make longer-term financial decisions and clinicians considering leadership or a different career direction. Its discussion of doctor pay, investing principles and workplace culture places those choices alongside the demands of clinical work.
It is also relevant to listeners interested in the personal story behind PassGP. You can listen straight through or begin with the part closest to your current decisions: the medical career, financial life or the origin of PassGP.
Where does the listening link take me?
Use Listen to the conversation on this page to open the featured episode on Acast.