Diversity In Healthcare

JOHN MARSHALL
WILL HAVE THE FULL FORECAST
COMING UP.
AS POLITICIANS BATTLE OVER
HEALTHCARE THERE'S A PUSH TO GET
MORE MINORITY STUDENTS
INTERESTED IN BECOMING DOCTORS.
THERE ARE PIPELINE PROGRAMS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY WORKING TO
BREAK BARRIERS FACED BY MINORITY
STUDENTS MAKING IT TO MEDICAL
SCHOOL.
HOW THESE PROGRAMS ARE
HELPING DREAMS COME TRUE.
YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT A
DOUBT.
I'VE DONE IT ALREADY.
DR.
MAURICE SHELBY THOUGHT ABOUT
BECOMING A DOCTOR BUT HAD NO
IDEA HOW TO GET THERE.
THEN HE
ENTERED A PHYSICIAN PREP PROGRAM
STARTING IN HIGH SCHOOL.
THEY PROVIDED EVERYTHING,
SHADOWING EXPERIENCE, ALSO
S.A.T.
PREPARATION.
COMING IN
FOR MORNING ROUNDS, GOING TO
CLINICS, SEEING PATIENTS,
WRITING CHARTS.
THE PIPELINE PROGRAMS
CONTINUED THROUGH MEDICAL
SCHOOL, OFFERING EMOTIONAL AND
FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
NOW THE
DOCTOR MENTORS OTHER MED STUDENT
AND SAID HE WHEN TREATS PATIENTS
OF COLOR IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM
THEY ARE SURPRISED.
IT'S A SHOCK SOMETIMES.
THEY APRESHUATE ME
PRECIATE ME HAS THEIR
PROVIDER, APPRECIATE THAT A
PERSON WHO COMES FROM THE SAME
BACKGROUND WAS ABLE TO
ACCOMPLISH SUCH A THING.
JOE WEEDERHORN IS THE
PRESIDENT OF AMSNY THAT RUNS
MANY PIPELINE PERHAPS.
--
PROGRAMS.
IF A STUDENT HAS A PASSION
AND REALLY WANTS TO GO TO
MEDICAL SCHOOL THERE ARE WAYS TO
GET THERE.
THERE ARE PEOPLE UT
--
OUT THERE AND PROGRAMS OUT THERE
THAT WILL SUPPORT THEM.
HOW DO YOU YO FIND -- DO YOU
FIND OUT
ABOUT THE PROGRAMS.
DR. SHELBY
FOUND OUT FROM HIS GUIDANCE
COUNSELOR BUT YOU CAN GO TO THE
WEBSITE WITH A LISTING OF ALL
THE PROGRAMS.
THESE ARE STUDENTS IN THE
PIPELINE PROGRAM.
MANY WANT TO
BECOME DOCTORS BUT RUN INTO NAY
SAYERS.
THEY JUST HAVE A LOT OF
THINGS TO TELL YOU TO DISCOURAGE
YOU.
IF YOU'RE FROM WHERE I'M
FROM LIKE HAITI, YOU HAVE TO
REMIND YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE A
GOAL AND YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT
THAN ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE OF THE
COMMUNITY YOU WERE RAISED IN.
SHE KNEW SHE WANTED TO BE A
DOCTOR EVEN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BUT SAID IT TOOK THIS PROGRAM TO
OPEN THE DOOR.
WANTING A DREAM OR HAVING A
DREAM IS ONE THING BUT ACTUALLY
REACHING FOR IT IS ANOTHER
THING.
I THINK THAT I'M ABOUT
HALFWAY THERE AND I'M REALLY
HAPPY THAT I MADE THAT FIRST
STEP.
THE NEXT STEP IS COLLEGE.
JESSIE HAS A
PPLIED TO SCHOOLS
LIKE COLUMBIA AND CORNELL AND
WILL GET AN ANSWER IN APRIL.
FINGERS CROSSED.
YEAH
.
THEY WOULD BE LUCKY TO GET
HER.
ABSOLUTELY.

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