Opening a Pathway: Slate of programs exposing young people of color to field of medicine

ON THE MEND: Anna Rezk, a Warren Alpert Medical School student, checks the casting work of a youngster who was assigned to treat a teddy bear with a broken arm at the Black Men in White Coats youth summit at the Brown University medical school in October. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
ON THE MEND: Anna Rezk, a Warren Alpert Medical School student, checks the casting work of a youngster who was assigned to treat a teddy bear with a broken arm at the Black Men in White Coats youth summit at the Brown University medical school in October. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

In medical school, Emmanuel Asiedu was one of the very few students of color in a sea of white students. That did not change after graduation, when Asiedu became a doctor and found himself one of the few Black physicians working at his hospital. No wonder. Statistics show that in 2019, only 5% of active

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