Army Capt. (Dr.) Kristan Baird shares her journey as a new mother pursuing a lifelong dream to become a doctor. As a U.S. Army medic, she was accepted into the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, known as EMDP2, designed for enlisted personnel from across the military services to become future military doctors. Now an anesthesiologist at Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Baird can’t “see myself being happier going a different route. I finally obtained this.”
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