Abby Hansen Masterman is the new intern at the Mt. Abram Regional Health Center in Kingfield. KINGFIELD — For the next month, Abby Hansen Masterman will be doing a rural rotation at the Mt. Abram Regional Health Center under the guidance of Dr. Robert Jacobs.

Masterman is a graduate of Mt. Abram High School 2001 and studied biochemistry at the University of Maine at Orono from 2001 to 2005. While in her junior year of college, she did a fall semester at the University of East Anglia in Norwich England.

Masterman then went on to the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine starting in 2005 and is still attending that college and will graduate in June.

Last year she did her care rotation in family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, OBGYN and Psychiatry at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

"My 10-year goal is to do family medicine in a rural area like Kingfield (where she grew up)," Masterman said.

Masterman said she will be doing a residency after graduating and hopes she will be able to do this threeyear program at the Eastern Maine Medical Center.

Masterman and her husband, Ethan, are currently living in Carmel. She is the daughter of Jim and Julie Hansen of Kingfield and the granddaughter of Richard and Beverly French, also of Kingfield.

(On a personal note, this reporter has taken many photographs of Masterman while she was a student at the Kingfield Elementary School and Mt. Abram. When I saw her holding the health center's newest patient, 10- day-old Jasper Mello son of Craig Mello and Amanda Crandall of Strong, it was hard to believe that the little girl I used to know had now grown and was well on her way to being a doctor.)