Ophthalmologist standing in a modern eye clinic beside diagnostic equipment.

For Residents and New Graduates

You Were Trained to Be an Employee. That Was the Point.

You trained to own, not to be hired. There's a third door, the one where you walk in as the owner.

see what you'd own

how it works

525

Residency spots a year

Capital required from you

Day 1

Clinical ownership begins

For Residents and New Graduates

You Were Trained to Be an Employee. That Was the Point.

You trained to own, not to be hired. There's a third door, the one where you walk in as the owner.

see what you'd own

how it works

525

Residency spots a year

Capital required from you

Day 1

Clinical ownership begins

For Residents and New Graduates

You Were Trained to Be an Employee. That Was the Point.

You trained to own, not to be hired. There's a third door, the one where you walk in as the owner.

see what you'd own

how it works

525

Residency spots a year

Capital required from you

Day 1

Clinical ownership begins

The Script You Were Handed

You Were Taught to Wait Your Turn.

Every graduating resident gets handed the same script. Take a job first. Pay your dues. Maybe own something one day, once you've earned it. Nobody says it out loud, but the message is the same everywhere: ownership is for later, for someone more ready than you. That timeline was never yours. It belongs to whoever profits from you staying an employee.

of physicians leave their first job within three years

MGMA / Jackson Physician Search

Up to

of ophthalmologists change jobs early in their careers

AAO Young Ophthalmologist data

If you're going to leave the first one anyway, make it the one you own.

The Path They Skipped

You're Valuable
Enough to Own.

Your field is headed for a 30% shortage by 2035. There aren't enough of you, and that shortage is your leverage. Here's the door nobody showed you: an established practice with patients and revenue, zero capital in, and the surgeon who built it staying to teach you. You own it from day one.

The Three Doors

The Offers You'll Get vs. The One You Won't.

This fall you choose between three doors. Two get walked through for you, the way they always have. The third, the one where you own it, is the one nobody put in front of you. That's the tell.

Exit: 3 to 5 years

PE-Backed Group

A partnership track that usually goes nowhere

Sold to a bigger fund in 3 to 5 years

Volume quotas that show up after year one

You build the value, they keep it

The day after you sign, it may already be for sale

Hold: Permanent

Verdira

You own the PC with your name and license

Zero capital in. No buy-in, no bank debt

The selling surgeon stays to mentor you

A fixed fee, never a cut of your revenue

Held permanently, never flipped. In writing

It's all in the contract before you sign. The trap was never having one.

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The Math Just Changed

More Debt,
Fewer Options.

As of July 1, 2026, federal Grad PLUS is gone for new borrowers and graduate borrowing is capped for the first time. Your class carries more debt with fewer ways to manage it. Owners often take home six figures a year more than employed physicians, so a path that asks zero capital from you matters more now than it ever has.

The debt just got heavier. Owning is how you outrun it.

What You're Probably Thinking

The Questions in Your Head.

I just finished residency. Am I too early to own?

No. The model is built for exactly this moment. You bring the license and the skill. We bring the capital, the practice, and the mentor. Early isn't the risk, it's the advantage, because your ownership compounds across an entire career instead of starting fifteen years late.

I just finished residency. Am I too early to own?

I have six figures in student debt. Can I even think about this?

The debt is the reason to. There's zero capital required from you, no buy-in and no new loan, and you earn owner economics from day one instead of an employee's capped salary. Owner income clears debt years faster than a salary does.

I have six figures in student debt. Can I even think about this?

I'm a strong surgeon, but I've never run a business.

You're not expected to. You run the medicine. We run the business, the billing, the staff, the compliance, the operations. And the surgeon who built the practice stays to teach you the parts residency skipped.

I'm a strong surgeon, but I've never run a business.

What if I take a regular job first and want to own later?

You can, but read the contract first. Most first jobs come with non-competes and partnership tracks that quietly go nowhere, and the practice can be sold out from under you. Owning first means there's nothing to escape later.

What if I take a regular job first and want to own later?

Am I locked in forever?

No. You own your PC outright, and the terms, including how you exit, are in writing before you sign. We hold the business side for the long term, but you're never trapped. The protection is on paper, not on a promise.

Am I locked in forever?

You didn't train this long to be someone's employee.

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Disclosures

The content of this site is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security or other asset, or a promise to undertake or solicit business, and may not be relied upon in connection with any offer or sale of securities or other assets.

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