AAMC June 24, 2021
An $800 million boost in funding for the federal scholarship and loan repayment program could expand the number of physicians in underserved communities.
As the child of Colombian immigrants living in Chicago, Paola Portela, MD, grew up getting her health care at government-funded clinics. The experience made such an impression on her that she decided she would become a doctor someday and care for people who had similar experiences to her and her family.
“I said, ‘Mom, I’m going to do this,’” she recalls. “‘I’m going to speak to people in my language. I’m going to serve the people I grew up with.’”
Portela went on to become a physician, and after completing a residency in pediatrics at...
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