Medscape January 28, 2025
When she was an undergraduate, internist Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, remembers having second thoughts about going into nursing as originally planned. She spoke with a college counselor about her desire to go to medical school instead.
At the time, it was the 1980s, and women made up about 30% of medical school students, Rohr-Kirchgraber said. When she mentioned medical school, the counselor sat her down and told her point-blank, “Well, if you become a physician, you won’t be able to be a mother then!”
“There was this expectation that you couldn’t do it all or if you would have to choose,” Rohr-Kirchgraber said. “I think that probably dissuaded a lot of women from going to medical school.”
Forty years later, the...
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