Events
Office of Financial Aid

Each month during lunch hour, a member of the financial aid team at PCOM and PCOM Georgia hosts a table in the lobby to showcase different topics related to financial literacy. Stop by for some information, grab a giveaway and get some financial aid questions answered.

Bring your own lunch (BYOL) to these interactive workshops hosted during your lunch hour. Topics include:

• Making your own budget.
• External scholarship tips and tricks.
• Money basics.
• Accessing your credit history.
• And more!

An interactive webinar is hosted once per term and features a different topic. PCOM's debt management counselors use Blackboard Collaborate to hold the webinars. Learn something new in less than an hour!

Schedule an appointment anytime with a debt management counselor to talk about financial aid, making a budget, managing debt and more. Students are invited to meet more than once.

• Schedule an appointment with Star at PCOM Georgia.
• Schedule an appointment with Brian at PCOM.
• Schedule an appointment with Grace at PCOM.
• PCOM South Georgia students may contact any counselor above for appointments via phone call or Google Hangouts.

Each spring, from March through May, several lectures are held on each campus as part of our Lecture Series. We host professionals from the fields of home loans and home buying, financial planning and investing and student loan debt management.

View recordings of last year's lectures here.

Student groups and classes may request a visit from the debt management counselors to present on any financial topic at a club or program meeting. Past events have included:

• PEDtalk on the PCOM Georgia campus on "the importance of financial wellness."
• Small focus groups hosted by Hickory Pointe Financial Group, an Ameriprise Private Wealth Advisory Practice.
• Annual debt management presentations for the graduating Physician Assistant classes.
• Annual new student financial aid reception hosted during orientation week on each campus.

The purpose of this advisory board is to assist the debt management counselors in identifying the needs of PCOM and PCOM Georgia students as they relate to developing stronger financial capabilities. Participants will share their experiences as students of PCOM and provide perspectives on the financial aspects of their lives. This group will meet in person not more than once per term and dinner will be provided.

The Office of Financial Aid will then use this feedback to drive decisions as we further develop the overall financial literacy programming on each campus.

Participants must be willing to speak openly about money and their relationship with it within the confines of a small group of peers and the debt management counselors.

If you are interested in participating at the Philadelphia, PA location, please email Brian at brianem@pcom.edu.

If you are interested in participating at the Suwanee, GA or Moultrie, GA locations, please email Star at lastarsgr@pcom.edu.