Medical student to spend four weeks training at OMHC

Ruth Go has completed her first year of medical school at the University of Washington, and is now spending the next four weeks in Odessa, shadowing Dr. Linda Powell and other providers at the clinic, Quail Court and the hospital. She is the latest in a long line of students to participate in the RUOP (Rural Underserved Opportunity Program) at UW.

Go’s family is from Everett. Her mother is a pediatrician in Arlington (north of Everett), and her father is in real estate. She has one younger brother, who recently graduated from UW.

With an interest in becoming a primary care physician, Go will have plenty of opportunity to learn more about that aspect of medicine, as she works with the staff at Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center over the next few weeks. Patients will be asked their permission before the student is permitted to perform some simple procedures under the doctor’s direction and supervision.

Athletic physicals for student athletes wanting to compete next fall must be completed by July 27 in order to take advantage of the special low price offered by the clinic. Helping with the physicals is a good place for the medical student to begin working with patients, and Go says she is looking forward to doing whatever she can to help out.