Janice E. Daugherty, M.D., is an associate professor of family medicine at East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, N.C. She graduated from Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., and completed a residency in family practice at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, N.C. She currently serves as course director for clinical skills I, which introduces first-year medical students to clinical care.