36 med students, young physicians recognized as future leaders

Three dozen students, residents and early career physicians from around the country are being recognized for their commitment to reducing health care disparities and their non-clinical leadership in advocacy, community service and education. Find out who has been awarded this year’s honors. Minority med students receive equity honors Growing up, Aaron Doctor had a front-row view of the barriers to health care. The Gullah Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina are among the nation’s most remote and insular communities. Daily life offered Doctor a range of lessons on coping with a lack of care. “Often people who are from communities like mine are mistrusting of people that they deem as outsiders, and that’s where I come in,” said Doctor, a student at Morehouse School of Medicine. “A familiar face goes a long way to creating the comfort necessary to build a successful relationship.” “I’m motivated because I’m a product of a community where social inequality and health disparities are a very real concern,” he said. That motivation makes Doctor one of this year’s recipients of the Minority Scholars Award, part of the AMA Foundation’s Excellence in Medicine program. The award provides $10,000 scholarships to first- and second-year students who show academic achievement and a commitment to reducing health care disparities. Scholarship recipients were honored June 10 in Chicago at the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting. The 21 recipients this year ...
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