Yen-Phuong Bui, DO

 I am very proud to be called a Vietnamese refugee because my past experience with the disparity in healthcare taught me the importance of providing compassionate care where and when it is most needed. After graduating from the University of Houston-Downtown with a Fine Arts degree and working full time as a graphics designer, I spent my weekends volunteering at MD Anderson Cancer Center. It was there that I realized healthcare, specifically family medicine, would best fit my interests and how I want to contribute to my community. Family medicine best balances my enthusiasm for connecting with patients and practicing evidence-based medicine while allowing me the fulfillment of a career that helps improve patient lives and prevent diseases. Connecting with patients from all backgrounds, critically thinking to make confident clinical judgments to solve medical problems for patients of all ages, improving the health of patients and educating the community on preventative care are important aspirational goals for my medical career. I find these factors to be the most humanistic part of medicine and the Family Medicine Residency Program at UNM would further help achieve my goal of gaining the necessary skills to care for future patients.