Amaka Nnamani

Jul 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Amaka Nnamani |Catherine Spaulding |Andy Schoonover |Debra Shute

“You’ve got some guts starting your residency pregnant!” I was that intern. It was June 2011. A few months earlier, on Match Day—the day when the National Residency Matching Program releases results to applicants seeking residency in a specialty of their choice in the U.S.—I had found out that I’d gotten into my first-choice hospital residency program in pediatrics. I started my residency four months pregnant, and one of my attendings was not going to let me forget it.