Having children during a medical career is challenging.

 

Medicine involve rigorous training through medical school, residency, fellowship and beyond. Reaching professional goals can sometimes seem impossible, let alone trying to balance those goals with raising a family.

 

Physicians who bear children may face reduced job and training opportunities, lack of career advancement, less referrals and resentment from other colleagues who feel they have a greater workload.

 

Unfortunately, the reality is that the optimal reproductive window falls within the timeline of medical training. Physicians have expressed regret that they did not consider family planning sooner and faced challenges such as infertility and age-related pregnancy complications.