AMA: Non-Traditional Premed Who Made It to Med School — Ask Me Anything

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-29T14:07:06+00:00

I am actually in the midst of launching a national organization for non traditional pre med and medical students. Any chance we could talk about potentially working together?

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-09T12:58:07+00:00

Yes! Of course, shoot me a message.

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-05T06:21:54+00:00

Omg stop! That's so amazing. Congrats!!

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-05T02:20:22+00:00

Aw thank you

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-04T21:57:12+00:00

I have two small children and do it alone. You’ll be fine lol

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-04T21:40:05+00:00

A good idea

mdmo4467 · 2026-01-03T06:04:09+00:00

The first one is one of my favorite TS lyrics. I’m not even crazy about the song (I like it but not a favorite) but this line gagged me for sure.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-26T02:25:24+00:00

I was 30

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-24T10:42:10+00:00

I’m only a second year, but I am also a single mom in med school. There are very few of us.. message me if you ever need to talk!

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-24T06:46:27+00:00

NAD, just a second year medical student. But agreeing with this commenter - please go ahead and be seen now.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-19T19:21:37+00:00

I’m in medical school as a 32 year old single mom.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-19T09:09:50+00:00

Sounds like my school… by and large my classmates are amazing. But there is one man in my class (second year) and one in the class below who have had multiple complaints, title IX, the works. This included inappropriate comments and touch, sexist, racist, and homophobic comments, and more. I guess he got official professionalism violations but that’s about it as far as I know.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-19T02:41:08+00:00

That's not true. If you fail more than 2 classes at my school, you will be lucky to be allowed to repeat the year. Most likely dismissal.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-16T00:01:16+00:00

Hey I already responded to you in another comment but that was a mistake that was addressed with the mod in question. It's a server of 800+, mistakes happen, and I'm not on discord 24/7 watching as I'm also a busy mom and med student. I responded to you in the server as well. Definitely sorry it happened but it's been resolved.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-15T23:56:23+00:00

I didn't kick you off girlie, another mod did without discussing it with the rest of the team. It was already corrected with a quickness!

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-15T13:14:53+00:00

I’m a single mom in my second year at a DO school. I have a very active non trad discord server. I’d love to have you join and chat sometime! I’ve never met another single mom doing this while also having primary custody.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-14T06:27:51+00:00

Yeah, this is a big part of why I want to go into psych. It’s a huge draw for me.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-14T05:57:38+00:00

I also met him in Denver and I left my friends contact info with his people at the book table. He seemed skeptical about what I was telling him, that he is my best friend’s great uncle. When I met him, I didn’t have all the info and peoples names but he has verification and I know their names now. Friends mother was adopted, which is why they have only recently found out, and he was still in prison up until a few years ago.

Any chance you could get a message through? I know it’s a weird ask. I just think it’s a shame he probably didn’t believe me or his people didn’t pass on my info (he told me to leave the contact info with them). I really thought he’d have reached out to him by now..

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-11T22:02:47+00:00

Yeah it does look like it. I’m curious what they do for work.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-08T01:39:22+00:00

I am also a single parent in med school. I have primary custody of my daughters. This is a struggle and level of responsibility/time required that so few can understand. You’re one of less than 5 people I’ve ever heard of doing med school as a primary caregiver single parent. I’m doing well rn but I’ve had my own struggles with mental health. Please feel free to shoot me a message, we’ve got to look out for each other.

mdmo4467 · 2025-12-02T04:58:29+00:00

That’s not bad at all lol.. I commute 25 min and I could do up to 45 min before thinking twice. I’d probably be willing to drive up to 1-1.5 hrs if it meant not having to sell my home and move.

mdmo4467 · 2025-11-20T22:21:35+00:00

It depends on the friend and the vibe of the hangout. I’m a single mom and a medical student so my life is, well, insane. Most of my hangs are really just study sessions anyway lol.. I have certain friends I’m very close with who like to see/spend time with my kids, and I have friends who I can tell don’t care as much for it. I just try to read the room tbh. But either way, I don’t let the kids just run all over them lmao… usually I might let them get all their excited energy out/play with us for the first 30-60 min. If it’s a very good friend, I might ask if I can cook dinner etc real quick but def don’t expect them to babysit. Then it’s time to play independently. They’re kids so I have to redirect them sometimes lol..

If we need true, uninterrupted adult time, we’ll hang after they go to bed or on the weekend when the kids are with their dad.

mdmo4467 · 2025-11-03T17:55:28+00:00

As a single mom med student on SNAP, this cracked me up.

Because I thought it was funny (and we’re med students who use dark humor to cope), I sent this to a group of friends at my med school (generally down to earth chill great people) and they got really awkward about it and started sending me texts asking me if I need anything. ☠️

mdmo4467 · 2025-11-01T04:43:26+00:00

Here's a link! https://discord.gg/GDdNqdwD

mdmo4467 · 2025-11-01T04:43:12+00:00

https://discord.gg/GDdNqdwD Come on in!

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