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Medical Education as a Passport to Making a Difference: Jermaine Blakely, Third Year Medical Student at Howard University College of Medicine
“I thought that education and medicine was a pathway for me to not only get out of my small town but to also make a huge impact somewhere in the world,” says Jermaine Blakely, a third-year medical student at Howard University College of Medicine. But Blakely didn’t wait for medical school to start making a difference. While an undergrad at Morehouse College, he created a program that paired students with local churches to help the homeless, as well as women who were victims of domestic violence. Although he was pre-med at Morehouse, his path to medical school included detours to get a Masters in Health Policy and Management at NYU and several years working in healthcare IT at hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area, giving him a broader perspective than his younger classmates on the opportunities before them. “I think we're asking the wrong question to medical students. Instead of asking what they want to specialize in, we should ask ‘what do you want to do with your medical degree’ because I think your degree should be a passport to many different career paths.” Possibilities for Blakely include creating a medical device company, joining a venture capital firm or maybe falling in love with a specialty and having a clinically-focused career. Regardless, there’s little doubt we will be hearing about his positive impact in the years ahead. Don’t miss meeting this inspirational young leader as our NextGen Journeys series continues.
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“I thought that education and medicine was a pathway for me to not only get out of my small town but to also make a huge impact somewhere in the world,” says Jermaine Blakely, a third-year medical student at Howard University College of Medicine. But Blakely didn’t wait for medical school to start making a difference. While an undergrad at Morehouse College, he created a program that paired students with local churches to help the homeless, as well as women who were victims of domestic violence. Although he was pre-med at Morehouse, his path to medical school included detours to get a Masters in Health Policy and Management at NYU and several years working in healthcare IT at hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area, giving him a broader perspective than his younger classmates on the opportunities before them. “I think we're asking the wrong question to medical students. Instead of asking what they want to specialize in, we should ask ‘what do you want to do with your medical degree’ because I think your degree should be a passport to many different career paths.” Possibilities for Blakely include creating a medical device company, joining a venture capital firm or maybe falling in love with a specialty and having a clinically-focused career. Regardless, there’s little doubt we will be hearing about his positive impact in the years ahead. Don’t miss meeting this inspirational young leader as our NextGen Journeys series continues.
Howard University College of Medicine
If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/raisethelinepodcast
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