Dr. Mary Alice Scott is a medical anthropologist whose research interests include critical ethnographic analysis of health, health care, and health policy in the United States, with a particular focus on the U.S.-Mexico border region. Her work engages in participatory methodologies and action-oriented research. Dr. Scott’s current research is an ethnographic study of teaching and learning medicine in a family medicine residency program. Drawing on critical and applied medical anthropology, she works with an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty to both describe and critique the “culture of medicine” in this particular location and to develop strategies to better focus training on upstream medicine and to address issues related to physician depression, burn-out, and suicide.