Medical leave is appropriate information to share under circumstances. If it causes you inability to perform certain task and explains why you left your job.

My husband is RN and had a total shoulder replacement in the midst of pandemics. Long overdue replacement. He was on medical leave (short term disability) for 3 months doing physical therapy and stuff.

At the end of his leave surgeon refused to give a release to return to his specific position and his hospital (due to danger of reinjury). He gave a permission to return to work but not to his position. My husband asked for light duties. His hospital had no light duties.

He interviewed for a different position in other hospital. He explained what happened and why he needed to leave. They wanted to make sure he’s able to do the job and gave him physical evaluation and he passed and has been employed there since

He’s RN in a local hospital in post surgical unit now with normal duties while what he did before was high danger extremely physically strenuous RN position.

In his situation medical condition and medical leave was the only way to explain why he left his job and the only honest way because that’s what happened

I don’t know if Hope had to mention medical leave. Probably not. It’s hard to explain it being direct reason as there was almost a year passed between the events. If medical condition was the reason, it would have to be more immediate. If you let go a year after returning from medical leave it’s harder to explain and it might not appear related.