As a newly pregnant third-year medical student, Sarah Krumholz ’26 faced unique challenges: balancing clerkship demands with crippling fatigue and nausea, planning maternity leave, and deciding when and how to disclose her pregnancy to preceptors. In a perspective piece published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Krumholz reflects on navigating medical training while becoming a mother, exploring themes of professional identity, empathy, and the evolving expectations placed on physicians, particularly women, in clinical spaces. 

“We need more available narratives of mothers in medicine, not only to give trainees hope that it is possible to succeed in both roles, but to see who we can lean on for support when this success feels out of reach.” — Sarah Krumholz ’26

Krumholtz will begin internal medicine residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital after graduating from the Larner College of Medicine this May.

Read her essay in the  Journal of the American College of Cardiology