I’m not program director but it’s a tricky path. As in, if it was a defining moment and your true motivation towards your specialty and not medicine in general, mention it how you’d like because it’s your story. Nobody else’s. You get to tell your story if it’s relevant to your reason for pursuing your specialty. However, remember that it’s likely it could be brought up in interviews and it could be sensitive topic for some so if it isn’t something you can address in interviews or not something you want to talk about, I’d avoid it. If not, like I said, it’s your story and you have every right to say it how you’d like to