Minority Med Students Get Insider's View of Psychiatry... -
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Published on: 3/4/2005
Last Visited: 3/19/2005
From left are Niku Singh, M.D., Annelle Primm, M.D., Constance Dunlap, M.D., William Lawson, M.D., Ph.D., and Aly Rifai, M.D.
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By her fourth year of medical school at Georgetown University, Constance Dunlap, M.D., had decided that she would pursue a career in obstetrics/gynecology.
"As a medical student, I didn't even consider psychiatry," she recalled.
But her experience working alongside a psychiatrist during an internship on a maternity ward changed her mind, she said, and she entered a psychiatry residency program at George Washington University.
These days, Dunlap is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University and Howard University, where she teaches residents.She also maintains a private practice in which she treats adult patients with mood and anxiety disorders.
"There is something appealing about being able to maintain relationships with my patients" over time, Dunlap noted.