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Moye finished medical school.
The Moye's first photo as a family.
Everything began to fall in place. In her medical school rotations,
Dr. Moye was fascinated by a wide variety of specialties. Whether it
was the high-intensity stimulus of surgery or the family interaction
of pediatrics, there was far more she loved than not.
“My challenge was that if I chose one field, I’d be excluding other
things I enjoyed about practicing medicine. That is why, when I
found dermatology, I was blown away,” she recalled. “I immediately
realized it combined everything I like. You treat everyone from
children to elderly patients. You see people who are generally well
and people who are incredibly sick. There’s surgery, but we also have
long-term connections to patients. I was hooked.”
In June 2011, Dr. Moye and her new husband started their five-
year journey of upheaval. First came a required year-long internship
in internal medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Just one year
later, they packed up again to pursue Dr. Moye’s residency at the
University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City.
“North Carolina was a whirlwind of a year but then we moved
to Iowa, which we really enjoyed. The main thing we loved about it
was the people. Iowans are very warm and welcoming and friendly.
It was the polar opposite of my experience in New York,” Dr. Moye
remembered.
With a great city and supportive husband, Dr. Moye threw
herself into dermatology training. Despite a steep post-medical
school learning curve, it wasn’t long before she found herself feeling
comfortable in practice.
“When you graduate from medical school, you kind of think
you know everything. Then I began residency,” Dr. Moye laughed.
“It’s amazing to realize how much medicine there is that you don’t
learn in medical school. There’s no way you could possibly learn
it all. But, pretty soon you know the things you need to succeed.
My residency was very hands on. Almost every patient who came
to the University of Iowa Hospital was seen by a resident with an
attending. So, I got used to things very quickly.”
As the residency came to a close, Dr. Moye wanted to pursue
her training further. She’d become interested in Mohs micrographic
surgery, a skin cancer treatment procedure of removing and care-
fully examining thin layers of cancer-containing skin until only
cancer-free tissue remains. Through her fellowship at UT South-
western Medical Center in Dallas, Dr. Moye became an expert on
the procedure.
It was just around the time Dr. Moye and her husband were ready
to leave Dallas for Kentucky that they discovered she was pregnant.
“I’m someone who likes to plan things,” Dr. Moye explained. “I
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was due July 15 th . My plan was to finish my fellowship at the end of
June and then have a baby in either Dallas or Kentucky. When we
discovered I was pregnant with twins, that kind of threw a wrench
into my planning.”
While home in Atlanta for a baby shower in April 2016, Dr.
Moye went into preterm labor. After two weeks of hospital bedrest
and numerous medications attempting to arrest preterm labor,
William and Julia were born nearly three months early, at 26 weeks
and six days gestation.
“They were in the NICU at Northside Hospital in Atlanta for
three and a half months. The first few weeks were terrifying, espe-
cially because my son was initially not doing well at all. They received
excellent care, and are now growing and developing normally,” Dr.
Moye said. Despite her babies’ early arrival, Dr. Moye still had to
complete her fellowship in Dallas. “What I ended up doing was
commuting back and forth to Dallas each week. I worked in Dallas
Monday through Friday while they were at the hospital, then came
back to Atlanta on weekends. I could not have done this without
the knowledge that my husband would be with our babies in the
NICU every day, and my parents and my in-laws would be there