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[quote=Anonymous]I have an MD/PhD from a too med school (think Johns Hopkins/Harvard/UCSF) and I think, as a woman, it has hurt me professionally.

It made it easier to get a good residency, but since then I have worked with men from predominantly mid-tier and foreign medical schools in an academic/research setting. I’m in a more technical speciality and most of my colleagues are men. My  “fancy” med school appears to trigger their insecurities.

Occasionally when I say something incorrect or just not that smart, my med school pedigree is whipped out and people make snarky comments about what “quality graduates” my med school produces. A few times they have “joked” that I was an  affirmative action admit. (I am old - there were affirmative action admissions for women in the MD/PhD program back then). They love to ask me to translate Latin terms, and when I say they can’t, they act “surprised”. And it’s not like I even talk about my pedigree, and I would certainly never hang my diploma in my office.

Honestly, I think that my career may have gone smoother if I had gone to a mid tier med school. As a woman, it’s like my fancy degree is a target on my back and the guys need to prove that they are better than a graduate from my school. I wonder if it is this way for other women?[/quote]

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