Rising health needs drive U’s effort to draw Native students to med school
By Dan Kraker/MPR News Medical student Fred Blaisdell has a few months to go before anyone calls him doctor, but the Oneida Nation tribal member has already learned one lesson around the importance of Native physicians serving Native patients. During a recent psychiatry rotation at a Minneapolis clinic, he introduced himself to a patient who […]
U’s medical school in Duluth welcomes record number of Native students
By Dan Gunderson/MPR News When Jennie Murillo was in high school, she remembers going to her local Indian Health Service clinic in southeast Idaho for regular checkups and mostly seeing older, white male physicians. One day, though, she was seen by a Native American woman. “I was so taken aback by that,” said Murillo, 24, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and an […]