What it means to be a woman in medicine today
At first glance, medical school can be simplified to “drinking from a fire hose.” Endless Anki cards, color-coded notes, iPads filled with diagrams.
Cramming and regurgitation, funny acronyms and mnemonics. Obscure conditions. Buzzwords.
It feels like memorizing a ton of conditions and running through the routine steps of diagnosis, treatment, management, clinical investigations, and so on — until you can recite them in your sleep.
You’re buried in biochemical pathways, pathophysiology, and pharmacology, …
