Voices of Diversity

“I knew it. I knew you were out there because I know you.”  I let out an exasperated sigh as I could feel the tension building in my mother’s silence on the other end of the phone. “Ciera, [...]

  It’s no secret that the first clinical year of medical school is tough. In most programs, students get to ease into their medical career with a class structure similar to that of [...]

Mentors on The Move Exclusive Interview with Robert Trevino, MD-PHD [T4D]: What are you “Moving” to? [Dr. Trevino]: After a 10 year medical school career, I recently graduated with my [...]

Mentors on the Move Exclusive Interview with Dr. Ebonie Vincent [T4d]: Can you remind our readers what type of residency you just completed?   [Dr. Vincent]: I have just completed my [...]

It’s February. This is typically the time where the mentors of the Tour for Diversity in Medicine (T4D) are flooding your timelines and feeds with posts about the Tour, sharing stories and [...]

Being the tour’s photographer, I was tasked with the job of “making sure you show the young black men”, early in the tours.  Thinking that it was just a balance of genders being [...]

  I became a doctor by accident. At least that’s what I told myself. Growing up in a small town in Mississippi, I never dreamed about being a doctor and honestly, I don’t know anyone who [...]

As a black man, seeing another black man in medicine IS BELIEVING it could be you too. The most blaring problem is that there are too few black men in medicine currently, and the trend seems to [...]

I put my thinking cap on, and decided that I wanted to share the spectrum of emotions that we experience through our journeys. Without further adieu, I present: Being a Black Man in Medicine as [...]

The year is 2017 and I am the primary physician working in the Emergency Department at my primary site in Springfield, TN.  The next available patient on the tracking board is a female patient [...]