It’s a striking image: Fifteen black students from Tulane University, all dressed in white lab coats that convey their status as future doctors, line up in front of a symbol of slavery at the Whitney Plantation. ADAfter his daughter pointed out the significance of being a black physician in the United States, and the two talked about “how far we had to come,” Ledet decided that the other black medical students at Tulane needed to see it. Just 6 percent of 2015 medical school graduates were black, according to an Association for American Medical Colleges report. ADRepresentation can help change that, said Ledet and Labat, who have already started hearing from a mix of students. “We’re trying to do our best to show students, other children, this can be you, this is you, and nothing is out of your reach,” Labat said.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2019 21:00 UTC