Dr. Carlos Cream, an internal medicine faculty at UPMC Central Pa., says the time is right for the medical community to seize the gains and progress made and move further along the way the numbers of young Black students entering the medical field.
than any other time in history, marking a historic 21% increase over the previous year. The number of Black men enrolling in medical school was particularly noteworthy, with a 20.8% increase.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to have had those people. To have met with enough of those people who have helped me,” Cream said. “My goal, my task is to pay that forward.” “Too often the person of color is the individual of color,” Cream said. “This may lead to a lot of implied roles, meanings, and strain not recognized by others. In any group dynamic, the individual that is in some way different — race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age etc. — is left to educate and persuade the majority of its collective ignorance on a given topic.
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