Check out FAFP member, Dr. Tisha Van Pelt, featured in the latest AAFP article.
“I was studying to be a teacher,” said Van Pelt, a third-year family medicine resident at the University of South Florida. “I was sitting outside of a fifth grade class. That’s as good as it gets. In fifth grade they’re really happy and love to learn. It was a small, gifted class with six to eight students. I was good friends with this wonderful teacher and her son, so I probably got special attention and treatment. But as I sat there, I was shocked to realize that I didn’t want to go in. That scared me, and I thought, ‘Why on earth, with this perfect situation, am I not excited? Do I really want to teach?’”