Until last year, when she spent a month practicing obstetrics in a rural clinic in Uganda, Mary Moreno, M.D., a family medicine resident at the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency Program in Concord, N.H., never fully understood the breadth and scope of family medicine. By the end of a one-month rotation delivering babies, performing cesarean sections and treating a variety of afflictions not commonly seen in the United States, however, Moreno had developed a greater respect and appreciation for family medicine. And she returned to the United States with renewed motivation and confidence in her skills as a family physician. Moreno's trip to Uganda was funded, in part, by the New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians.
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