You're Not Too Old (to Go to Medical School)

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/hospital-physician-relationships/the-72-year-old-medical-school-graduate/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/05/10/grandmother-medical-school-graduate-residency/

Dawn Zuidguest-Craft, 72, graduated from St. James School of Medicine in Anguilla in the Caribbean this spring. She is the oldest person to ever graduate from her school.

Dr. Zuidguest-Craft will begin her family medicine residency at Trinity Health Medical Center in Muskegon, Michigan, on July 1. She hopes to practice medicine for as long as she can.

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I know someone who graduated from medical school in her 60s and had a wonderful late life career!

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