CORPUS CHRISTI They started on different sides of the world and in different job fields.

Michael Dunn worked on F-35s and F-16s for Lockheed. Avegiyel Dunn, dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, coordinated evacuations for wounded troops during her mandatory military service.

Friday, the couple graduated from Christus Spohn Family Medicine Residency Program and look forward to joining Joseph Larakers practice in Beeville.

The Dunns stood out to Jose Hinojosa, family medicine residency program director, because through the three-year residency, they never lost focus, Hinojosa said.

They had the same message, they wanted to practice together, they wanted to practice the full spectrum of medicine and in a rural setting, he said.

Going through school and residency as a couple can be a benefit, Hinojosa said.

They can go home and talk to someone who really knows what they are talking about, he said.

Avegiyel Dunn, 32, grew up in the small farm town of Zippori, Israel, and made several trips to visit family in Corpus Christi when she was a child. Of all her childhood fantasies, becoming a doctor was the dream that stuck, she said.

In Ohio, Michael Dunn, 44, also considered being a doctor, but wasnt sure.

It was a conflict between that and space, he said.

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Couple bond through love of medicine