CWRU medical school graduate to become first-ever Black female neurosurgery resident at Vanderbilt скачать в хорошем качестве

CWRU medical school graduate to become first-ever Black female neurosurgery resident at Vanderbilt

We read about history, but it's not often that we become part of it. Tamia Potter, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, is now a graduate of the CWRU School of Medicine. Her dream of becoming a neurosurgeon is one step closer to becoming reality. When Tamia opened her envelope at Match Day in March—that's the day medical students nationwide learn what residency programs they will join following graduation—she discovered she made history. Tamia was accepted to Vanderbilt University, where she will become the first Black female neurosurgery resident in the school's nearly 150-year history. According to the National Institute of Health, there are only 33 Black female neurosurgeons in the nation. Tamia is gearing up to be on that list. "The part that's different is sometimes, I don't realize who I am and what I look like when I'm doing this," Tamia explains. "So to me, I'm just doing my job, but to everybody else they see a Black woman doing a really great job." The achievement is personal for Tamia. She's the first in her family to go to medical school. But this was a moment she had been planning for from a young age when her fascination with the human brain and its inner workings first sparked. Carmen Blackwell reports: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/hea...