After years of preparation and long hours studying, students at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine are on their way to becoming doctors.
Thanks to our sponsors:“I’m very passionate about serving the underserved,” Mata said. “I love everything — so working with kids, expecting mothers… . Family medicine is the place to be.”
Mata is one of five students who studied at the Stritch School of Medicine as a DACA recipient. DACA is a policy in which children of undocumented immigrants are temporarily protected from deportation. Stritch professor Mark Kuczewski said 50 DACA students, also known as “Dreamers,” have gone through the medical school since 2014.
“We do not have a physician workforce that has a diversity we need to properly serve the patient population here in the United States,” Kuczewski said, “so when we heard of this qualified group of applicants, who are bilingual, bicultural, had this resilience — they kept going when people told them they couldn’t do it because they weren’t citizens. That’s the kind of thing that makes them a great doctor.
“It was hard for me to get health care for my parents,” Siddiqui said. “It ultimately started with my own challenges and then volunteering at health clinics, and then I realized there were other families like mine, and it wasn’t the only one. And I thought maybe through medicine I can also help my community.”“The medical field can often be distrusting,” Siddiqui said, “and people don’t know if they can trust their doctors.
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