A mother of nine who started medical school when her youngest child was 4 years old graduated with her medical degree and plans to be a neurosurgeon.
"I was 34 and I decided to go back and start taking some more recent coursework and I had to retake the MCAT," she said."I remember studying for the MCAT when my two youngest were 2 and 3 years old and my 2-year-old would climb on me like a mountain while I was trying to take practice tests."
"Before I even applied to medical school, we had a big family meeting and everybody got to voice their opinion about it and we explained to them what it would mean," she said."They all gave it a big vote of support at the time."Dr. Sarah Merrill poses with her family at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine graduation on May 20, 2022.
"A lot of times my teenage daughters would say,"Hey, mom, let's have a homework party,' so that's what we do for fun," she said."We'd have snacks and they'd be doing their homework and I'd be studying for medical school." At school, Merrill said she went from being the only mother in her class at the beginning of medical school to being one of three moms in the program by the time they graduated.Dr. Sarah Merrill graduated from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine on May 20, 2022.
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