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In 1959, the waning days of the Jim Crow era, Clark College graduate Marion Gerald Hood applied to Emory University School of Medicine. The response from the school’s director of admissions, L. L. Clegg, was pointed and swift: “I am sorry I must write you that we are not authorized to consider for admission a member of the Negro race.”
The school returned Hood’s $5 application fee. “I don’t even know if they looked at my credentials,” he says. Hood went on to attend medical school at Loyola University in Chicago and to enjoy a long and distinguished career in gynecology and obstetrics in Atlanta.
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.