Hennepin Healthcare program aims to get
more girls of color into medical careers
KSTP-TV [Minneapolis St. Paul],
by
Andrea Lyon
Original Article
Posted By: voxpopuli,
5/15/2022 9:58:40 PM
More than 100 students attended a career summit Sunday designed to encourage women of color to enter the medical field.
The inaugural Black Women With Stethoscopes event hosted by Hennepin Healthcare offered young women ages 12-18 hands-on classes on work like dentistry and surgery. Some learned how to draw IVs or put in a breathing tube.
Dr. Nneka Sederstrom, chief health equity officer at Hennepin Healthcare, said her goal is to address the lack of diversity in hospital staff.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/15/2022 10:03:00 PM (No. 1156413)
Soon we will be worse than the 3rd world countries
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/15/2022 10:36:48 PM (No. 1156440)
Regardless of merit, of course.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/15/2022 10:51:54 PM (No. 1156455)
You need to read between the lines.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kewmac 5/15/2022 10:56:28 PM (No. 1156462)
FTA: " Some learned how to draw IVs". What does this mean? How to start an IV? How to draw a blood sample from an IV? Draw a sketch of an IV? Idiocy on full display.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/15/2022 11:06:02 PM (No. 1156471)
First, they need to go to school, stay in school, and learn the skills necessary to go into the medical field, nursing, laboratories, etc. They need safe schools, safe for teachers and students. No CRT, or other destructive trash. By the way, they need to get their young men on the same path, and hopefully they will want to return and serve their communities.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 5/15/2022 11:25:09 PM (No. 1156477)
Eye witless news reports--TV reporters have all the intelligence as a bed of wet kelp.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 5/15/2022 11:28:52 PM (No. 1156478)
Learn an IV is fine! 2x2=5 ain’t! One must learn science which includes absolutes like math? Idiots! I earned my participation trophy in nursing! Yea me! I rock!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/16/2022 12:15:33 AM (No. 1156502)
Just what I want when I am sick and go to the hospital, an affirmative action, probably angry, black woman that hates whites for victimizing her, and believes the science that says men can get pregnant!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 5/16/2022 1:32:01 AM (No. 1156539)
Our closest blood draw specialty office for Quest is a one person operation. A nice middle aged black lady runs the office and does the draws. She's a real expert at it, and I always go there, and thank her for doing a great job.
Not that blacks can't do this, but I am worried that the folks selecting are selecting on skin color NOT COMPETENCE or other merit. That is wrong.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/16/2022 1:42:17 AM (No. 1156545)
They'll get'em in there whether they're qualified or not. Keep in mind, these are the people who'll be taking care of you in old age.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/16/2022 2:20:13 AM (No. 1156550)
#1 - The bright side would be third-worlders would no longer be interested in crossing our border. What would be the point? Tough way to end the invasion but it just might work.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
slipstik 5/16/2022 2:24:37 AM (No. 1156551)
Could someone please tell me what the hail a "health equity officer" is?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/16/2022 4:13:01 AM (No. 1156563)
There they go again, fooling with Mother Nature. I can't wait until the airline pilot programs start. They are also trying like hell with professional golf but the Asian girls are kicking butt and you don't see a black face anywhere except in the commercials. Diversity simply does not work in certain areas.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 5/16/2022 4:46:48 AM (No. 1156573)
Wasn't it just last week we read about a black med student boasting on social media about purposely doing extra jabs on white folks while doing IVs/blood draws, etc? We can certainly assume all black female medical professionals are racist and guilty of this since every white person, ever, owned slaves. Turnabout is fair play.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 5/16/2022 6:35:20 AM (No. 1156611)
I teach high school students. Among all the various "demographic/gender groups" the black girls are the worst behaving and worst students.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Historybuff 5/16/2022 8:32:59 AM (No. 1156683)
I can’t tell the Difference between “girls of color” and “colored girls”. But thanks for playing.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/16/2022 9:10:57 AM (No. 1156726)
They can tell the difference, #16, and will make a point of telling you about it, as if you cared.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/16/2022 9:15:46 AM (No. 1156735)
Back about 3 decades ago, a California medical school, (may have been UCLA, although I'm not sure) decided that not enough blacks went to medical school, so they created a summer program for black pre-teens.
The kids were given white jackets and stethoscopes, and addressed as "Doctor."
It never occurred to the real doctors that kids have a grasp of reality that made the program a joke.
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For a real “fright of your life”, End up in a hospital that uses Africa nurses. Those chip on their shoulder women know what they’re supposed to do, but don’t know how to do it. Not competently anyway. Hateful and incompetent. Don’t want to be around them ever again.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/16/2022 10:22:26 AM (No. 1156821)
Another program to "encourage women of color to enter the medical field." In the past few years I cannot recall any interaction with a male doctor, nor a white one. My docs have invariably been female, primarily Indian, with a few other Asian nationalities represented. In fact, I cannot recall even seeing a male doc.
Meanwhile, one wonders why males are fewer and fewer on the campi nationwide. Check out the evolution of veterinary medicine, and the consequences of the profession becoming overwhelmingly female.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ironchefw 5/16/2022 10:23:26 AM (No. 1156823)
I am not comfortable with people picking a job and saying that because the race percentages don't match up to the general population, we have bend over backwards or "kidnap" some kids off the street and "brainwash" them into selecting that career. What if they would prefer a different career?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NamVet70 5/16/2022 10:31:13 AM (No. 1156829)
MLK dreamed of a color blind world. I guess other than getting his name on a lot of city streets, he didn't accomplish much.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/16/2022 12:04:20 PM (No. 1156950)
Does it count if the girl has a good sun tan?
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