About 2.6% of the nation’s doctors in 2019 and 7.3% of students enrolled in medical school in 2020 identified as Black or African-American.
Osose Oboh knows how difficult it can be to make it through medical school, but she’s on track to graduate from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine next year.
During visits to schools in Flint, Michigan, students initially told her they were interested in working retail jobs or playing professional basketball. Weeks later, after meeting medical students who looked like them, the students said they, too, wanted to become doctors.But there are barriers to growing a more diverse physician workforce. Socioeconomic factors can make it more challenging for underprivileged students to have an equal shot at medical school.
and doctors work long shifts. But there will be long-term effects, too, like renewed interest in specialties such as infectious disease and lung specialists.
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