Seton Catholic Alumni

Sarah Dickman ’22 just finished her first year at the University of Cincinnati Medical School. The idea of a future in medicine didn’t occur to her until she was a college sophomore. That’s something that is not that unusual at Earlham.

“I don’t think I’m the only one who has had this experience of being almost converted into a pre-med student,” she said. “I think it’s just because the professors do such a great job of presenting really difficult material in the sciences in a really digestible way, and they make it exciting. I think it has more of a drawing-in effect, rather than scaring people off.”

Dickman, a biochemistry major and student-athlete from Richmond, was captivated by her science courses. At first, she considered going into animal or ecological biology, but her experiences working as a pharmacy technician in a local hospital and participating in a community health coach program where she was able to do home visits with an emergency medical services provider helped change her direction to medicine.

“I really enjoyed feeling when I finished for the day that I had done something meaningful in someone else’s life,” she said.