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...cannot graduate HMS or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the licensing exam...
Currier said yesterday that the accommodations beings offered by the National Board of Medical Examiners—which include a private room, multiple breast pumps, and the option to bring food or drink into the exam room—would create humiliating and even unhygienic testing conditions...
Joseph F. Savage Jr., a lawyer, representing the examining board, said during oral arguments yesterday that granting extra break time for lactation would “compromise” the integrity of the exam, which is required by HMS for graduation and by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to begin a residency program...
...They can’t explain how giving a nursing mother additional time would detrimentally affect the exam,” Currier said. “There’s no reason why women should have to choose between following medical advice and advancing their careers...
...dispute, the school’s spokesman, Don L. Gibbons, said yesterday that newly appointed HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier and Dean of Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag wrote to the board in August to urge the formation of a subcommittee to modify the current policy on lactating exam takers...