Farrah Fong (1 Posts)Contributing Writer Emeritus
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Farrah Fong is in the Class of 2016 at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, double-majored in Exercise Biology and Music Performance (Piano) at UC Davis, and completed her graduate studies at Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She is a student writer for The DO, and a co-founder of FMStudent, a guide and resource page for third and fourth-year medical students interested in family medicine. Her hobbies outside of school include music, powerlifting, dancing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, cooking, and writing. She will be completing her Family Medicine residency at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.
Throughout medical school and especially during our clinical rotations, students are often told to keep an open mind about choosing a specialty. This is sound advice, especially since many people change their minds once they are exposed to other fields. However, that does not mean that all specialties are perceived as equal — even in a primary-care focused medical school, third-year medical students often run into prejudice against FM. Worse, they may run into stereotypes about family med which could be enough to sway them away from the specialty they would really love.
Farrah Fong (1 Posts)Contributing Writer Emeritus
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Farrah Fong is in the Class of 2016 at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, double-majored in Exercise Biology and Music Performance (Piano) at UC Davis, and completed her graduate studies at Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She is a student writer for The DO, and a co-founder of FMStudent, a guide and resource page for third and fourth-year medical students interested in family medicine. Her hobbies outside of school include music, powerlifting, dancing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, cooking, and writing. She will be completing her Family Medicine residency at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.
