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...days before a Harvard medical student was scheduled to take her certification exam, Massachusetts’ appeals court temporarily voided an earlier ruling that would have given her extra break time to pump breast milk. Sophie C. Currier, the MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), who is currently nursing a five-month-old infant, will postpone taking the exam until the three-judge appeals panel rules, said her spokeswoman, Alex Zaroulis. Currier cannot graduate from HMS or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour licensing exam. “Things...
...this semester, but I decided that I would look past this grievance, enter their territory, and play the game by their rules.But wait—what are their rules? We have all heard that we should not to bother petitioning for classes without both a midterm and a final exam, since Cores supposedly need to include both. But this can’t be true, since the 1,115 of us taking Justice are well aware that we don’t have a midterm. Confused from this realization, I decided to try to find out what Core criteria actually...
Currier asked in her suit for 60 minutes per day of break time on top of the 45 minutes given test takers during the eight-hour exam...
Currier said after her Tuesday hearing that the accommodations offered by the NBME—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...
Currier could not be reached for an interview today, but she wrote in an e-mail yesterday that she was focused on studying for the exam...