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Hopkins medical students participate in "die in"
About 150 medical students participated in a "die in" demonstration outside Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on Wednesday to protest police brutality in Baltimore and across the nation.
About 150 medical students participated in a "die in" demonstration outside Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on Wednesday to protest police brutality in Baltimore and across the nation.
Wearing white lab coats, the students lined up outside the Anne and Mike Armstrong Medical Education Building in the 1600 block of McElderry St. in East Baltimore at noon and shouted "If I can't breathe, you can't breathe." Following a short speech by an event organizer, the students laid out on the sidewalk surrounding the medical school for four-and-a-half silent minutes, representing in minutes the hours it took for St. Louis area medical examiners to retrieve the body of 18-year-old Michael Brown from a street in Ferguson, Mo., after he was fatally shot by police in August.
"This is a health problem," said event organizer and doctor Manisha Sharma, saying police need to be held more accountable for unnecessary killings and excessive uses of force in the same way doctors are held accountable for malpractice.
Tania Haag, a Hopkins medical student and demonstration organizer, said students are becoming more and more aware of the inequity that exists within the medical and justice system in how the poor are treated, and she said Wednesday's demonstration was meant to highlight that gap.
"You have to be aware that different access to care exists," she said.
The "die in" was held in concert with medical schools across the United States, which held similar protests. Wednesday was also International Human Rights Day.
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Medical students across U.S. hold 'die-ins' to protest racism
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- White-coated medical students from Harvard to the University of California held "die-ins" Wednesday to protest the deaths of unarmed black men and racism in health care.
The National White Coat Die-In involved scores of medical schools across the United States.
Lucy Ogbu Nwobodo, one of the organizers of the protest at the UC Davis Medical School in Sacramento, said the national discussion of the shooting of Michael Williams in Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York "have affected all of us."
"We decided to come together as one voice to speak up about these issues," Nwobodo told Capital Public Radio. "We believe that because it affects our patients outside of the hospital it's just as important as what we see in the medical clinics."
At Yale in New Haven, Conn., medical students spent 4 1/2 minutes lying on the ground, a minute for each hour Williams' body remained on the street, and then, like Garner, shouted "I can't breathe." Jessica Minor, a medical student, said the protest was also aimed at the under-representation of minorities and women in medical school.
At the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, protesters stopped traffic. About 100 students blocked Walnut Street by lying down.
"Protecting the citizens of this country is something that I've been doing since I got out of the military," Michael Spinnato, a first-year student at Penn, told KYW-TV.
Philadelphia has one of the biggest clusters of medical schools in the country, and each held their own demonstration.
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Tufts, Boston Medical Center talk merger
Tufts Medical Center and Boston Medical Center two large Hub teaching hospitals are considering a blockbuster merger in what would be the latest in a string of high-profile hospital mega-unions in the Bay State.
Tufts Medical Center is currently engaged in discussions to explore a partnership with Boston Medical Center, Tufts spokeswoman Brooke Hynes said in a statement last night. Like Tufts MC, BMC is an outstanding academic medical center backed by an exceptional medical school and university.
Hynes declined to discuss specifics of the deal, including how close the two sides are to signing an agreement.
BMC, a 496-bed hospital, has one of the citys busiest trauma centers and holds a teaching affiliation with Boston University School of Medicine.
Tufts is a Chinatown hospital with 415 beds that in 2012 performed more heart transplants than any other hospital in Massachusetts. It also includes the Floating Hospital for Children and has a teaching affiliation with Tufts University School of Medicine.
Our organizations share a commitment to high quality, lower cost health care and to serving every patient with the greatest respect and compassion, Hynes said. Bringing our strengths together could be very powerful and meaningful, and we look forward to continuing our conversations with BMC.
BMC spokeswoman Melissa Monahan noted both are Hub hospitals that share a commitment to teaching and research.
There is more work we need to do before making a decision, but our conversations to date suggest the combination of our organizations could strengthen our missions to provide the highest-quality care to patients for many years to come, Monahan said.
With Tufts MC we have recognized that the combination of our individual strengths could create a partnership uniquely positioned to improve health care in Massachusetts, she added.
The mega-deal comes on the heels of Tufts acquisition of Lowell General Hospital, which was completed in October, and in response to other huge hospital consolidations.
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Wearing lab coats, medical students die-in
Roughly 70 members of the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health communities, clad in traditional white lab coats, lay down in front of the medical school for four a half minutes today after assembling at noon.
The demonstration was part of the nationwide protests against the shooting of Michael Brown and choking of Eric Garner at the hands of police earlier this year. But this demonstration, part of White Coat Die-Ins held at medical schools across the country, also emphasizedthe effect of systemic racial inequalities on health outcomes for minorities.
This is not just a political issue, said Jessica Minor MED 22 GRD 22, the student who organized the event. This is a public health issue. And, above all, this is a human rights issue.
We talk about mortality, and we talk about risk, Minor continued. Being black is a risk. Its something we cant deny, and its what this movement is asserting.
The nationwide White Coat Die-In was set to occur at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, but students chose to move it to midday, when people are out for their lunch break, to increase the protests visibility, Minor said.
Robert Rock MED 17, who joined the die-in, said that it is important that future healthcare providers are trained and cognizant of how systemic racism can play out in patient-provider interactions and create health disparities. Among those disparities, he said, are the differences in cancer diagnosis rates between minority and non-minority patients.
If you step back fromthat explicit event [the shooting of Michael Brown] and look atthe situation in verycongested urban areas where minorities live, its very much a health issue, Rock said.
Ignacio Cerdena MED 18, who participated in the die-in, added that simply living in intensely policed areas can result in post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms, which can be passed on for generations.
While the attendees of the demonstration came from a mix of minority and non-minority backgrounds, several participants noted that their experiences growing up motivated their interest in pursuing healthcare as a career, allowing them to tackle the nations discrepancies in access to healthcare.
Herbert Castillo Valladeres MED 18, who helped organize the event, emigrated to the United States from Guatemala at 11 years old, and grew up in an extremely diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. He said he was happy to see that the die-in attracted students of all backgrounds and ethnicities.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 8, 2014 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center today announced plans for a new medical education building for its School of Medicine. Funding for this $50 million capital project is part of a larger capital campaign that will be publicly launched next summer.
The medical education building will be located in the former 60 series R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company complex, adjacent to 525@vine in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Construction will begin immediately with plans to be ready to welcome medical students in July 2016.
The medical education building is Wake Forest Baptists most significant capital improvement project reliant upon philanthropy in decades.
Wake Forest School of Medicines presence in Winston-Salem is a tribute to philanthropy, said Wake Forest Baptists Chief Executive Officer, John D. McConnell, M.D., and we owe our thanks to leaders like James A. Gray and Bowman Gray whose example continues to inspire us. Building upon that legacy, we embark upon this exciting component for the School, which is also contingent upon philanthropic leadership. We continue to look to our partners who have helped make an investment in the health of the community, the economic base of downtown Winston-Salem and the future of medicine and innovation in biomedical science and information technology in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.
Hand in hand with our philanthropic efforts, the Medical Center is fortunate in that Building 60-3 is a historic property, which qualifies the project for Historic, New Markets and State Mill tax credits, McConnell added. These tax credits significantly lower the cost of this project and make it possible, but because those tax credits sunset on Dec. 31, 2014, timing is crucial. That is why we are starting immediately.
The timing of the opening of the medical education building will coincide with Wake Forest Baptist introducing one of the most advanced medical school curriculums in the country, and will allow medical students to prepare for real-life experiences in the most modern of settings available for clinics and exam rooms, complete with the new informatics and technologies commonly used in patient care today.
In addition to training in the most advanced environments for outpatient clinics, medical students and faculty will learn in small group learning spaces, an anatomy lab, clinical skills labs and patient simulation suites, while support services including a student lounge, kitchen, faculty offices and meeting spaces will enhance student life and mentoring opportunities.
Wake Forest School of Medicine Dean Edward Abraham, M.D., said the time has come to create a medical training facility that matches the schools reputation as providing one of the highest quality programs in the country.
Our medical schools present facilities have been the training ground for our students since 1969. They have served us well, but our model of patient care has dramatically changed since then. Medicine has fast-forwarded to the digital age with computer-guided imaging and surgical procedures, lasers instead of scalpels and electronic medical records that allow patients to look up their medical test results, speak to their doctors and make appointments from their laptops and cell phones, Abraham said.
We will soon be introducing a leading-edge medical education curriculum that will prepare our highly qualified students to become outstanding physicians, and thus we must have the appropriate facilities to accommodate current learning and teaching styles and space to grow.
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Medical magnet program at Jones facing changes
Juniors and seniors in Jones High School's Medical Arts Magnet program will soon have the option to work on one of several medical-assisting degrees at Valencia College while in high school under a plan the School Board is expected to approve Tuesday night.
Some would graduate high school with an associate's degree.
The move is part of an effort to revamp a program that has struggled to draw and retain students. The dual-enrollment option, if approved, would start next fall.
Ashley Williams switched from Jones' medical magnet to its International Baccalaureate program because she wanted a more well-rounded education.
"If we had that when I was there, I probably would have stayed in the medical magnet," said Williams, 18, who graduated from Jones in May and is now a freshman at Rollins College.
One of two medical magnets in Orange County's public high schools, the Jones program has 73 students, more than half of whom come from other high schools.
The Valencia partnership would allow Jones medical arts students to take college classes on their own campus, including basic and medical courses, said Scott Fritz, the district's chief academic officer. They could work toward certified nursing assistant, medical assistant or EKG tech associate's degrees.
The idea is based on a similar partnership already in place with Wekiva High School's Laser Photonics Academy magnet program. Students there are dual-enrolled at Valencia.
"I would like to see more students be able to come out with a dual degree," said Jones principal Valeria Maxwell. "That's going to just help prepare them for life."
Current students such as Charvette Walker, who decided she wanted a medical career at age 5, have a program with fewer options.
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Brianna Aviles is already in Loggers' Run Middle School's pre-medical choice academy.
She wants to be a plastic surgeon, so her next logical step would be the Academy of Medical Sciences at West Boca High School.
Brianna and her mother Robin were among hundreds of middle school students and parents who piled into the high school to check out the four career academies. They also include Drafting & Design, Information Technology and Culinary Arts.
"This is a great way to determine if this is what you want to do for the rest of your life," said Principal Mark Stenner, as he watched throngs of visitors cross the courtyard between the auditorium and the academy classrooms for an open house the evening of Dec. 2.
Academy openings could be as many as 50 each, and an independent firm chooses the students by a lottery system, Stenner said.
So even though Brianna's GPA is 4.0, she may not necessarily get in or get into an academy right away. Micayla Richardson, another Loggers' Run eighth-grader, is also looking at American Heritage School, she said walking into the school earlier.
The 800-seat auditorium was about three-quarters full, a smaller crowd than usual, Stenner said before the presentation. "A lot of kids know where they want to go," he added.
The School District of Palm Beach County had the 2014 Showcase of Schools at the South Florida Fairgrounds on Nov. 3 that highlighted 270 plus choice programs and career academies, according to the district.
And this wasn't the only open house held this time of year.
"The deadline to apply for one of the district's choice programs is Jan. 30, so schools are holding these open houses and giving tours so parents and students have a chance to learn more about what our public schools have to offer," according to Kathy Burstein, media relations specialist for the district.
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Louisville Program Improves Half-Century Staple for Teaching Medical Students
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Newswise LOUISVILLE, Ky. For more than 50 years, standardized patients have been a staple of medical school instruction. These individuals are trained in symptoms and problems associated with disease and act as patients to give medical students hands-on training in the practice of medicine.
Today, the University of Louisville School of Medicine has taken use of standardized patients (SPs) to a new level, allowing more students to achieve learning objectives in a compressed time period and learn more about managing the continuity of care for patients.
The Longitudinal Standardized Patient Project gives students a single SP to see throughout their two-year Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. In the course, students must successfully master the core patient history-taking, examination and communication skills they will need for their future training and ultimately, as practicing physicians.
In the program, each student only sees their patient, one of nine patient characters we have developed, in 19 different patient encounters, said Charles Kodner, M.D., director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. This single SP enables the development of a continuity relationship, eliminating the need for the student to review the patients history with each encounter. Students gain time to focus on the purpose of the patient visit and the individual learning outcome they are expected to achieve.
In short, the Longitudinal Standardized Patient Project more closely mirrors what our students will see when they start caring for actual patients later in their training and once they become practicing physicians.
The ongoing student-SP relationship has strong benefits for the student, said Carrie Bohnert, director of the UofL Standardized Patient Program. Students begin to realize much earlier in the medical education that patients are real people with potentially complex personal and medical histories, she said. They are able to experience a doctor-patient relationship that has continuity something not otherwise available during the first two years of medical school.
An unexpected benefit has been the growing role of the SP as teacher as well. Our SPs have developed personal teaching relationships with their students and are able to identify subtle changes in student skill development or lack of development and other problems that might otherwise be missed without a strong continuity relationship, Bohnert said.
The program has been well-received, Kodner said. As we survey students both before and after the Longitudinal Standardized Patient Project, we have observed substantial increases in our students perceptions that the cases were realistic and that they could learn about medical problems and their patient as a person in the time available.
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No Increase in Patient Deaths or Hospital Readmissions Following Restrictions to Medical Residents' Hours
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Newswise PHILADELPHIA In the first year after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) reduced the number of continuous hours that residents can work, there was no change in the rate of death or readmission among hospitalized Medicare patients, according to a new study published in JAMA. The study was led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia.
There has been a lot of speculation about the effect of the 2011 ACGME duty hour reforms on patient outcomes, so we looked at death and readmission rates at the national level, said lead study author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at Penn and an attending physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Some hoped that by shortening intern shifts from 30 hours to 16 hours, less fatigued residents would lead to less medical errors and improved patient outcomes. Yet, others were concerned that shorter shifts would increase patient handoffs and leave less time for education, thereby negatively affecting patient outcomes. These results show that in the first year after the reforms, neither was true.
In 2011, the ACGME implemented new restrictions in teaching hospitals across the United States, limiting the number of consecutive hours that residents can work. For first-year residents (interns), the rules cut the maximum number of consecutive work hours from 30 hours to 16. For all other residents, the maximum number of consecutive work hours was reduced from 30 hours to 24 (with an additional four hours for transitions of care and educational activities). The revisions did, however, maintain the 80 hour-per-week cap that was instituted in 2003, following decades in which residents routinely worked more than 100 hours a week.
This study examined nearly 6.4 million Medicare patient hospital admissions between July 2009 and June 2012. The patients were admitted for heart attack, stroke, gastrointestinal bleeding or congestive heart failure, or for general, orthopedic, or vascular surgery. The study authors evaluated 30-day mortality and readmission rates, using the ratio of residents to hospital beds as a measure of hospital teaching intensity in order to compare outcomes between more intensive and less intensive teaching hospitals. They found no relative changes in patient deaths or hospital readmissions during this time period.
Even though residents are working shorter shifts, these results should provide some confidence that in the first year after duty hour reforms there was no negative or positive associations with quality of care as measured by patient death and readmission, added Patel. In addition, the change in duty hours means that residents may have more time to sleep and balance their other personal and academic commitments.
The other Penn study authors include Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, Dylan S. Small, PhD, Alexander S. Hill, BS, Orit Even-Shoshan, MS, Richard N. Ross, MS, Lisa Bellini, MD, Jingsan Zhu, MBA, and Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD. The study was funded in part by a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant (R01-HL094593). Patels work was supported by the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Editors Note: Additional media resources for this study, including video, are available on the JAMA website.
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PHILADELPHIA - In the first year after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) reduced the number of continuous hours that residents can work, there was no change in the rate of death or readmission among hospitalized Medicare patients, according to a new study published in JAMA. The study was led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"There has been a lot of speculation about the effect of the 2011 ACGME duty hour reforms on patient outcomes, so we looked at death and readmission rates at the national level," said lead study author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at Penn and an attending physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. "Some hoped that by shortening intern shifts from 30 hours to 16 hours, less fatigued residents would lead to less medical errors and improved patient outcomes. Yet, others were concerned that shorter shifts would increase patient handoffs and leave less time for education, thereby negatively affecting patient outcomes. These results show that in the first year after the reforms, neither was true."
In 2011, the ACGME implemented new restrictions in teaching hospitals across the United States, limiting the number of consecutive hours that residents can work. For first-year residents (interns), the rules cut the maximum number of consecutive work hours from 30 hours to 16. For all other residents, the maximum number of consecutive work hours was reduced from 30 hours to 24 (with an additional four hours for transitions of care and educational activities). The revisions did, however, maintain the 80 hour-per-week cap that was instituted in 2003, following decades in which residents routinely worked more than 100 hours a week.
This study examined nearly 6.4 million Medicare patient hospital admissions between July 2009 and June 2012. The patients were admitted for heart attack, stroke, gastrointestinal bleeding or congestive heart failure, or for general, orthopedic, or vascular surgery. The study authors evaluated 30-day mortality and readmission rates, using the ratio of residents to hospital beds as a measure of hospital teaching intensity in order to compare outcomes between more intensive and less intensive teaching hospitals. They found no relative changes in patient deaths or hospital readmissions during this time period.
"Even though residents are working shorter shifts, these results should provide some confidence that in the first year after duty hour reforms there was no negative or positive associations with quality of care as measured by patient death and readmission," added Patel. "In addition, the change in duty hours means that residents may have more time to sleep and balance their other personal and academic commitments."
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The other Penn study authors include Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, Dylan S. Small, PhD, Alexander S. Hill, BS, Orit Even-Shoshan, MS, Richard N. Ross, MS, Lisa Bellini, MD, Jingsan Zhu, MBA, and Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD. The study was funded in part by a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant (R01-HL094593). Patel's work was supported by the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Hurricane Sandy Increased Incidence of Heart Attacks and Stroke in Hardest Hit New Jersey Counties
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Newswise New Brunswick, NJ -- Heart attacks and strokes are more likely to occur during extreme weather and natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. Researchers at the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have found evidence that Hurricane Sandy, commonly referred to as a superstorm, had a significant effect on cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke, in the high-impact areas of New Jersey two weeks following the 2012 storm. The study, led by Joel N. Swerdel, MS, MPH, an epidemiologist at the Cardiovascular Institute and the Rutgers School of Public Health, was published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association (doi: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001354).
Utilizing the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS), the researchers examined changes in the incidence of and mortality from myocardial infarctions and strokes from 2007 to 2012 for two weeks prior to and two weeks after October 29, the date of Hurricane Sandy. MIDAS is an administrative database containing hospital records of all patients discharged from non-federal hospitals in New Jersey with a cardiovascular disease diagnosis or invasive cardiovascular procedure.
In the two weeks following Hurricane Sandy, the researchers found that in the eight counties determined to be high-impact areas, there was a 22 percent increase in heart attacks as compared with the same time period in the previous five years. In the low impact areas (the remaining 13 counties), the increase was less than one percent. 30-day mortality from heart attacks also increased by 31 percent in the high-impact area.
We estimate that there were 69 more deaths from myocardial infarction during the two weeks following Sandy than would have been expected. This is a significant increase over typical non-emergency periods, said Swerdel. Our hope is that the research may be used by the medical community, particularly emergency medical services, to prepare for the change in volume and severity of health incidents during extreme weather events.
In regard to stroke, the investigators found an increase of 7 percent compared to the same time period in the prior five years in areas of the state impacted the most. There was no change in the incidence of stroke in low-impact areas. There also was no change in the rate of 30-day mortality due to stroke in either the high- or low-impact areas.
Hurricane Sandy had unprecedented environmental, financial and health consequences on New Jersey and its residents, all factors that can increase the risk of cardiovascular events, said John B. Kostis, MD, director of the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey and associate dean for cardiovascular research at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Increased stress and physical activity, dehydration and a decreased attention or ability to manage ones own medical needs probably caused cardiovascular events during natural disasters or extreme weather. Also, the disruption of communication services, power outages, gas shortages, and road closures, also were contributing factors to efficiently obtaining medical care.
The research was funded in part by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
About Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School As one of the nation's leading comprehensive medical schools, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 20 basic science and clinical departments, and hosts centers and institutes including The Cardiovascular Institute, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs. To learn more about Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, visit rwjms.rutgers.edu. Find us online at facebook.com/RWJMedicalSchool and twitter.com/RWJMS.
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The first undocumented med-school student wouldnt take no for an answer
Undocumented students have previously been able to study and finish university programs at the undergraduate level, but what about higher degrees?
Jirayut Latthivongskorn, a premed student graduated from the University of California (Berkeley) wanted to go to medical school, but it wasnt an easy feat to make it happen, considering there wasnt a lot of information on why it hadnt been done previously.
People who were supposed to have answers were telling us that they didnt know how to help us, said Latthivongskorn. He was born in Thailand and moved to the San Francisco Bay area when he was 9 years old. It felt disempowering, very discouraging.
Latthivongskorn and two other undocumented classmates ended up calling admissions offices, mentors, and friends around the country to see if they knew a fellow Dreamer who had made it into medical school. No such luck.
It was very much like trying to find a unicorn, Latthivongskorn said.
Latthivongskorns dream school was the University of California (San Francisco), one of the top-ranked medical schools in the country. After first being rejected, he has now been accepted thanks to a new group of medical schools that has decided to accept students like himself.
One of the main issues that became apparent was that illegal immigrants wouldnt be able to qualify for loans and financial aid, which would make medical school incredibly difficult.
Luckily for Latthivongskorn, California had recently passed laws allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for state-funded financial aid and student loans, and to obtain professional licenses. His biggest obstacle now is the uncertain future of Obamas Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. If the next president abolishes DACA, and if immigration reform remains stalled in Congress, then he cannot legally work at a hospital as a medical resident.
Its surreal and crazy that Im here even, said Latthivongskorn. He is finishing up his first semester at UCSF and would like in the future to work as a doctor in poor countries like his own.
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