Medical student launches organization to increase number of Black doctors
and last updated 2021-03-04 12:26:58-05
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, only 5% of physicians identify as Black or African American. A young medical student launched an organization with the hope of changing that statistic and helping more Black youth have careers in medicine.
âMy name, Ifeanyichukwu, means nothingâs impossible with God,â said Ifeanyichukwu âIffyâ Ozobu.
Like his Nigerian name, Ozobu believes everything is possible. He s now a second-year medical student at Ross University School of Medicine. In 2019, he and some classmates set out to change the number of Black doctors in the U.S. Ozobu said right now, the percentage is even lower than it was in the 1970s.