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Jen Reinmuth-Birch

Jen Reinmuth-Birch

Osteopathic medical student at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences and incoming family medicine resident who started medical school at 50 and documents her journey as "Dr. Jen" on Instagram and TikTok.

Sep 22, 2026

14:07
We met at the grocery store.
14:09
I picked him up at the grocery store.
14:14
You never know what you're going to find in the produce aisle.
14:16
The boys were getting ready to graduate high school.
14:19
And everyone was like, oh, what do you want to do after you graduate? What do you want to do after you graduate? And Norm looked at me and said, what do you want to do after you graduate? Because in addition to working and doing consulting and working from home, I was homeschooling the boys.
14:30
Uh, so I, I went, and so, I mean, as soon as he said, what do you want to do? Like the words, I want to be a doctor just flew out of my mouth.
14:37
And he just looked at me in shock.

27 MINS LATER

41:10
What is one piece of advice that you would give anyone who's questioning whether to go through with this process, who's non-traditional or maybe a little older in life? I

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