title: Women in medicine and the ticking clock.
abstract: Our careers began with the long, arduous, and intensely focused commitments of premed, medical school, residency, and fellowship. We planned our lives rationally and enacted our plans with care. Now we have long-desired and satisfying careers. We discovered something, however, that the culture of medical training and our plans had failed to anticipate: We did not allow time for the unexpected.
authors.affiliation: Portland VA Medical Center, P3MED, 3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA. miural@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Lisa N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Rebecca S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Boxer
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D005260:Female; D058006:General Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health
keywords: delayed childbearing; infertility; maternal age; pregnancy complications