JPS resident wins national poster competition

Roxanne Ho, M.D., receives top honors at AAFP’s Resident Research Poster competition.

Roxanne Ho, M.D., a third-year resident with the John Peter Smith Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in Fort Worth, won first place in the AAFP Resident Research Poster contest at the Scientific Assembly in October.

Ho received $700 for the poster, “Adequacy of Colposcopic Biopsies in Family Medicine and OB/Gyn Clinics.” Her research examined how often cervical biopsies result in an adequate sample of tissue as opposed to small fragments. She compared the performance of obstetrics and gynecology residents and family medicine residents, finding that the rate of adequate biopsies was the same between the specialties. The obstetrics and gynecology clinic had a slightly higher rate of severe cervical pathology (cervical dysplasia).

Ho attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.