Women have contributed to osteopathic medicine since the very beginning, all the way back to the first ever class of DOs. If you look closely at A.T. Still's students, you'll find five of the six women who paved the way for countless DOs who came after. #WomensHistoryMonth
I took a month off med school for mental health
Took weeks off in residency for mental health
Took 2 months in fellowship for addiction tx
In 2019, I won Pediatric Faculty of the Year
We must stop conflating “taking time away from work” as a negative assessment of capability
Remembering that one time I overheard a patient say, “My pain scale isn’t your assumption scale”
I remember that often.
And how it applies to almost everything in this life.
“BMS prepared me academically for medical school, but even more it provided me with opportunities to grow as a learner and future physician, and with a wonderful, supportive community that has been instrumental to my successes” @katie_isch OMSIII @MUCOM_Indy
#BMSsuccess