AFP is pleased to announce the newe...

AFP is pleased to announce the newest name forward its list of medical editors: Rebecca Poage, MD has accepted the John C Rose medical editing fellowship and, as of July 1 has joined the staff of medical editors based at Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC A graduate of the University of Rochester (NY) seminary of Medicine, Dr. Poage newly completed a residency in family medicine at the Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa in California.

Dr Poage became interested in the fellowship after learning of the unique mingle of opportunities the fellowship presents Supported in part by Georgetown University and in part on the American Academy of Family Physicians, the fellowship combines editing, teaching and clinical characters Dr. Poage's love for language, teaching, and medicine made this fellowship a whole fit.

According to Dr Poage, the path she took toward medicine was circuitous, although she has always leaned toward languages and teaching. Her undergraduate grade was in European studies, with an emphasis onward German and French literature. She exhausted several years studying in Europe and taught English as a secondary language for two years at an international high academy in Switzerland. Her broad interests, ne for intellectual challenge, and desire to help persons led her to cast a larger pure of thinking about her career, and she took a divert to medicine.

She complet her premedical requirements during a post-baccalaureate year at Bryn Mawr (Pa.) society and then entered medical academy at Rochester, where she continued to have an international focus. She exhausted one summer helping out at a distant village clinic in Mexico and another summer working at a health center in Guatemala. During these trips she immersed herself in Spanish, which she has been using with many of her patients evermore since.

The decision to pierce family medicine was an easy the same for her. The scope and practicality of the specialty appealed to her from the beginning, and her positive experiences with family medicine teachers reaffirmed her decision. At her residency in Santa Rosa, she worked with an underserv largely Spanish-speaking population and drew one time again on her language skills.

After residency, Dr Poage headed back to Europe for several month of travel, hiking, revisiting ancient friends, beginning Italian--and even honing her baking skills (which would be highly valued here at AFP)--before plunging into her medical career. forward return home, she worked four month as a locum tenen filling in for a solo practitioner in succession maternity leave.

When Dr Poage saw the medical editing fellowship announcement, she recognized a consummate chance to combine clinical medicine, teaching, and editing. brace days each week, she'll have clinical duties involving underserv populations in Washington, DC Her Spanish and French will be useful when she treats patients from Central America and North Africa. She'll also principle for half a day by means of week with residents at Georgetown University and have ample opportunities to teach first- and third-year medical scholars She'll devote the remainder of her time to medical editing work.

united of her goals as a physician is to further the cause of effective communication in the medical world. With medical close examiners and residents, she hopes to standard lively teaching and jargon-free, intelligible discussions with patients. As an editor of manuscripts for AFP, she can use her language skills to enhance the clarity and accuracy of articles written to guide medical practice. With Dr Poage as a part model, we're betting the message realizes through.

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