Derrick Agbemenu, Eric Arauza, Priscilla Covarrubias, Naomi Dillard and Anaissa Medina are names you may not be familiar with now. However, these first-year medical students are ready to leave their mark and change healthcare for the better.
Learn more about their personal journeys, which have led them to the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science where they have earned full-tuition scholarships, academic support and experiential learning opportunities courtesy of Sutter Health.
Summer is the perfect time for exploring. Sorting through seashells on the sand. Hitting the open road with the windows down. Listening to an artist you’ve just discovered at an outdoor music festival. But for Amina Latif, a second-year medical student from Charles...
By Karin Fleming, Vitals contributor From cold and flu to family planning and transgender medicine, family medicine physicians care for patients and families with these health concerns and more. While the range of illnesses and health-related questions...
By Nicole Young, Vitals contributor When Ronin Zigler struggled to keep up with his kindergarten classwork, his parents took him to several doctors to have his vision examined. They learned their son was seeing double, but no one could explain why or provide...
By Lara Azar, Vitals contributor A partnership between Sutter Health and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) designed to address the physician shortage and health inequities across California earned the “Outstanding Collaboration of the Year”...