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, you’re a doctor. You’ve done enough. This is not your place.”  I looked back at the number […]

  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 undergraduate college, meaning… that students can choose if and when they have to interact with their classmates. The experience is as comfortable […]

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 MD from Rush Medical College after having previously received my PhD in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the Graduate College of Rush University in 2016. […]

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 three-year surgical residency program at Inspira Health Network in South New Jersey.  I am now a fully licensed Foot and ankle Surgeon!!!!   Wow […]

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 pictures of the students we meet, the campuses we visited, and the lives we’ve touched. It is something that many have come to […]

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 requested, I began to see just the pattern that the doctors were speaking of during their recaps:  Black men are needed in […]

  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 wanted to or probably thought they could. At 15 and after Hurricane Katrina, I moved to another small town […]

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 be turning in the wrong direction.  Allow me to start earlier for context; I am the only doctor […]

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 told through memes.   1. Match Day.   2. When you think about all the people who are proud of […]

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 between the age of 20-30 with abdominal pain and stable vital signs.  This chief complaint is the bread and butter of […]