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Marriage, two children and an 11-year career as a biology teacher in Gothenburg may have delayed her dream a bit — but it did not diminish it.
On Thursday, Bauman reached a milestone in her quest to make her dream a reality when she learned she would serve a family medicine residency at Lincoln Medical Education Partnership.
“It’s been my lifelong goal,” the fourth-year medical student said. “And the time is right for it to happen.”
Bauman and 114 other UNMC medical students learned where they will serve residencies during Thursday’s Match Day ceremony in the Sorrell Center.
During her years as a high school biology teacher in Gothenburg, Bauman taught students who would go on to medical school. One of her students currently is a third-year medical student at UNMC.
Four years ago, the teacher decided to become a student again. She had last been a pupil in 1997 when she earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
As she attended med school in Omaha, Bauman’s husband Joe, and their two children, Colton and Carly, would remain back on the family’s cattle farm near Gothenburg.
Bauman would return on the weekends — where she would find escape from medical school by fully engaging in her role as “mom.”
“I’d bring my books home, but they hardly ever got opened,” Bauman said.
Last year — on top of her other responsibilities — Bauman gave birth to a third child — a boy named Cameron.
The family will join Bauman in Lincoln as she serves her residency, a change that may prove to be a significant adjustment for Joe, a lifelong cattle farmer.
“I’m really a cowboy,” Joe Bauman said. “So Lincoln may take some getting used to.”
Some folks who are familiar with Lincoln, and each other for that matter, are Eric and Ashley Schneider, Amit Chakraborty, Brian Butler, Quinton Kelly and Steve Viljoen.
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Years later they met up again at UNMC and on Thursday they each learned where their individual paths will lead next.
The Schneiders will each serve residencies at UNMC; Ashley in pathology and Eric in emergency medicine.
Chakraborty will serve a one-year internal medicine preliminary residency at St. Joseph Mercy in Ann Arbor, Mich., before he returns to UNMC for a radiology residency.
Kelly will join Chakraborty at the Ann Arbor hospital where he will undertake a one-year transitional year before he goes to Milwaukee for a diagnostic radiology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Butler is headed to Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego for an internal medicine residency.
Viljoen is bound for Iowa City, Iowa, for a neurosurgery residency at the University of Iowa Clinics.
Joel Strauch — who before medical school spent one year teaching English at a Korean university and four years as a journalist for a computer game magazine in California — was relieved Thursday when he learned his “suicide match” had panned out.
Strauch called his match such because he applied for only one residency — a psychiatry position with the Creighton-Nebraska Health Foundation. He did so because he wanted to stay in Omaha to be with his wife, first-year medical student Dawn Strauch.
If he hadn’t received his match, Strauch would have had to scramble to find residency options — which can be a difficult proposition.
Following an embrace, the couple simply smiled and nodded when asked if they were relieved Joel had indeed landed the Omaha residency.
Click here to see a complete list of all the UNMC medical students who matched with residency programs on Thursday.