SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science celebrated a large accomplishment Tuesday morning. Beginning July of 2023, the historically Black instauration located successful Willowbrook, Calif., volition connection a four-year doc of medicine degree.
"This means that students from each implicit the country, particularly those from this assemblage of Los Angeles, students from Compton, Willowbrook, Watts, Lynwood, volition person a spot to travel to go aesculapian physicians," said Dr. David Carlisle, CDU's president and CEO.
School leaders said the caller programme was years successful the making and couldn't person been achieved without the enactment from truthful many. The programme volition commencement with an archetypal people of 60 students.
"If we don't bid Black and brownish radical to inhabit roles that they desire, we're losing retired arsenic an full community. There's truthful overmuch endowment here," said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, LA County Directory of Public Health.
This caller programme is the archetypal and lone four-year aesculapian grade offered by a historically Black instauration westbound of the Mississippi. It'll besides beryllium lone 1 of 4 humanities Black institutions to connection a aesculapian grade joining Howard, Meharry and Morehouse University.
"We're going to commencement present and we're going to scope the satellite and I americium over-elated," said Dr. Rasheed Ivey, a CDU alum. "I didn't cognize that I would acquisition thing similar this successful my lifetime."
Part of the school's ngo is to hole doctors to enactment successful underserved communities and module and students hold that this caller programme brings them person to accomplishing that goal.
"There were ample distances betwixt this assemblage and the closest wellness attraction halfway and that's wherever MLK roseate and that's wherever Drew besides rose," said Allison Leggett, a 4th twelvemonth CDU and UCLA aesculapian student. "So, this is the archetypal clip and this is virtually past successful the making that we're going to person a aesculapian schoolhouse successful South Central."
The assemblage is already accepting applications for the caller program.
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