Black Healthcare Professionals Empower Next Generation
Stacie Fairley, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology
at PCOM South Georgia, encourages the next generation of healthcare profession
-- Inspired by the iconic poem of Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise,” PCOM South Georgia’s Sistahs in Medicine and PCOM’s Office of Diversity and Community Relations hosted a panel of
Black women experts in health care to share their stories of strength, hope and perseverance.
Jessica Brumfield Mitchum, DO, family medicine physician and Karla Booker, MD, urgent care physician.
feeling similar was this: “In the midst of your struggles, don’t be robbed of your
Dr. Brumfield- Mitchum shared an uphill battle that all medical students face–passing boards. While she succeeded in
lectures and rotations, she struggled to pass her first board exam. After failing that exam twice, she took a break
from rotations to study diligently– and she passed. She encouraged the students to not let tests define them.
to attendees, “Don’t ever count yourself out. Women are the heart of the family, the heart of medicine, and the heart of
society. We’re the innovators.”
impact the lives of people that look like them and people that do not.”
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