Leaders in Medicine Are Blocking Future Black Doctors

My story happened 20 years ago, but it’s still happening today

Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH
Elemental
Published in
7 min readJun 17, 2020

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I knew that I wanted to attend Brown University when I was a sophomore in high school. Our college counseling office had a database of schools that could be searched by keyword. I clicked on “Biology” and “Premedicine.” The list generated was alphabetical. Brown was…

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