Tests in medical school are trying for everyone but especially so for Melanie Wiley Gail as she struggles with sounds and smells her fellow students don\u2019t seem to notice.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine taking the exam in a room full of skunks with rock music playing,\u201d she likes to say.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until after her first year at the Medical University of South Carolina \u2014 where Gail is pursuing both her medical degree and a doctorate in neuroscience \u2014 that she was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. While she is open about it and serves as chair of the Autism Society of South Carolina, many in medicine have privately told her they are keeping their condition private because they fear the public exposure.<\/p>\n
It is a stigma Gail would like to see changed.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pursuing a medical degree and a doctorate at the same time is difficult enough. Then Melanie Wiley Gail was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, and she decided to become an advocate as well: https:\/\/t.co\/1S7MqQrn7I<\/a><\/p>\n — Thomas Corwin (@AUG_SciMed) April 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n