As the show's passionate fanbase knows, Claire is a trained nurse at the start of Outlander, reconnecting with her husband after World War II separated them.

According to the university's site, they first began accepting women to Harvard Medical School "on an equal basis with men" in 1945.

In Season 2, fans got a taste of the post-Jamie phase of the Randall marriage, with Frank becoming aware that his wife had fully committed herself to another man and Claire believing that the great love of her life was over.

In Balfe's opinion, Frank does the "noble" thing in supporting Claire and raising Jamie's biological child, Brianna, as his own.

(According to the American Medical Association's 2014 statistics, only 19 percent of surgeons are women , and that's an entire lifetime's worth of progress from what Claire is dealing with.)