PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Miura, Lisa N. AU - Boxer, Rebecca S. TI - Women in Medicine and the Ticking Clock AID - 10.1370/afm.1515 DP - 2013 Jul 01 TA - The Annals of Family Medicine PG - 381--382 VI - 11 IP - 4 4099 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/4/381.short 4100 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/4/381.full SO - Ann Fam Med2013 Jul 01; 11 AB - 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.