First-year medical student Aaliyah Flake recalls there were no health care services available in the Frayser community of Memphis when she was growing up.
“We did not have a doctor or a hospital in Frayser,” she said. “We had to go over to Raleigh just to get my regular checkups. I had to go to Raleigh Christ Community Center. There was nowhere in Frayser I could really go.”
Thanks to a new program in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Flake, a 21-year-old first-generation college graduate, is on her way to becoming the physician she never had growing up.
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