Daily News | How to support the next generation of Black Philly doctors
“A lot of students, we get our last student loan reimbursement around March, and then residency starts in late June, early July, but we don’t get our first paycheck until mid-July,” said Shofolahan Da-Silva from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, who will begin a residency in anesthesiology.
“You need to have money to successfully do medical school or to successfully pursue medicine,” said Bryson Hoover-Hankerson, from Temple’s medical school. Hoover-Hankerson said that alleviating some of those costs and getting more Black people into medicine are crucial. He didn’t meet a Black physician until he was 20 years old, and said that lots of people in his family don’t trust doctors, in part because they rarely see doctors who look like them.
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