Joy E. Duer
In high school, I went to a medical camp hosted at UNC Chapel Hill, and one of our big events was doing a clinical day where we got to go see a site and I happened to go to Baptist and so I got to wander into the cath lab and watch a procedure. It was just such a good experience and such a place that growing up with family friends who had gone here to medical school, it was a home to them and to me that was what was really important.
Kind of started medical school thinking, "I'm going to be a trauma surgeon. I'm going to be a trauma surgeon," because my grandmother was treated by this woman who was a phenomenal ex-Navy trauma surgeon after a fall and I wanted to be her. I went through medical school and realized through rotations that's probably not something that's my skill set or my interest career-wise, so I luckily had two weeks on anesthesiology in my last couple weeks of rotations ever, and it just clicked. It was the kind of acuity that I liked. It was the amount of patient contact that I liked, a great space for things like QI and leadership. Those all kind of came together for me.
Leah R. Hindel
Someone like Joy is not only incredibly smart, incredibly resourceful and capable as a scientist, as a physician, and she shows people that they can trust her immediately.
Joy E. Duer
I'm here on the United States Army's Health Professions Scholarship Program and that means that I am here at Wake Forest and the Army is paying for me to be here at Wake Forest, and then when I'm done, I'm going to do an army residency program at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, and after that, I'll serve a minimum of four years on active duty as an attending.
David T. Burns
Knowing what I know about her, she always rises to the challenge of anything in front of her, and I think that in her future in the military and her military career, she's going to excel in what she does there too.
Joy E. Duer
My kind of patient work really didn't start until I came to medical school, so it was all very new to me, but from very early on in clinical skills, I realized that it's not just the doctor walks in the room, they listen to you, they tell you something and they leave. It's so much more than that, and the social and interaction part of that is truly an art form.
David T. Burns
She exudes this compassionate, caring physician aura about her.
Joy E. Duer
Learning to speak with patients and learning to gauge where someone is at and bring them along with me on my thought process about what's going on with them. There's patients' faces flash into my head and I have memories of times where you've had an aha moment with someone and they finally understand what's going on. When I look back, that's probably the most impactful and the most, I think, important in terms of skill-developing thing that I've done in medical school.
Leah R. Hindel
I think she is such an asset to the OR team. She's a team player as well, and to her patients, she's just someone that really will instantly show that she is capable, she is trustworthy, she has their best interests in mind, and she is so compassionate and empathetic that I think any patient will be lucky to have her as their doctor.
David T. Burns
I think that Joy in terms of influence or impact has definitely impacted her close circle very positively, but in the larger class setting, she was part of our honor council.
Joy E. Duer
I think honor council has been my heaviest involvement in terms of other school of medicine things, and it gave me a much greater appreciation of what it takes to be a good leader in this space, but it's been a joy to be able to serve my fellow students in that capacity to make sure that we have a fair and equitable student body and that our environment is supportive of that.
Marcia M. Wofford
I have seen Joy give advice to the students who follow her, who come behind her, and she has such a beautiful way of helping people realize how to be strong and confident and brave and genuine at the same time.
Joy E. Duer
Things can be tough sometimes, but we can lean on each other and that they are my colleagues first, but many of us have become friends outside of that, and I think that's just one of the best gifts they've given us. The first thing I want to say to my classmates is thank you. I really appreciate that you took the time to fill out the form in a very busy time in life. It means a lot to me, and the second thing I want to say is that these kind of qualities that we all see in each other is something that we have developed together over the last four years. This is a group effort and we have all worked together to become the complete physician because we all know that that's what we want to be for ourselves and for our patients and for our colleagues.
