MD, 2003, State University of New York at Buffalo BA, 1999, University of Rochester (Biology)
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Rebecca Dwyer, MDSenior Instructor in Family Medicine; Co-Director of the Ambulatory Clerkship Contact Information: Email: Additional Education: Faculty Development Fellow, Harbor-UCLA, 2006-2007 |
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Rebecca Dwyer, MD, is a native of Upstate New York and happy to be back in Rochester after several years on the West Coast. She is a graduate of the University of Rochester and received her MD from the University of Buffalo. She did her Family Medicine residency training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a county hospital in Los Angeles serving a predominantly indigent patient population. She then completed a fellowship in faculty development there while serving as Chief Resident. During her fellowship year, she also worked at a high school clinic caring for high-risk teens and volunteered as a preceptor for medical students at a homeless clinic in Venice, CA. Her interests in medicine include caring for the underserved, Latino health care (she is fluent in Spanish), women’s health, quality improvement, health care advocacy, and international health. Rebecca has provide health care in rural areas of Ecuador and Mexico. Since joining our faculty, she has traveled to Honduras with our Shoulder to Shoulder program and is an active participant in the Global Health program. In addition to seeing patients, precepting residents, and taking call for inpatient medicine and obstetrics, she works at the medical school as Co-Director of the Ambulatory Clerkship. This course introduces medical students to the clinical practice of medicine in the first and second years of training through preceptorships, preventive medicine and chronic care conferences, and small group sessions. In her free time, Rebecca enjoys running, hiking, salsa dancing, reading, traveling, and spending time with family and friends. |
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