Maurice Duggins, MD, a family medicine physician affiliated with Ascension Via Christi in Kansas, recently participated in the first Doc for a Day Youth Diversity Summit at Kansas University School of Medicine. Dr. Duggins serves as clinical associate professor in the university’s Family Medicine Residency Program at Ascension Via Christi.
Around 70 middle and high school students participated in hands-on simulations and had a chance to learn from Black and Hispanic doctors about working in healthcare.
“It’s very important for them to get exposed to these different areas in medicine because if they are not exposed, many of them become intimidated or feel intimidated thinking it is way above their ‘pay grade’ to participate by giving them the exposure we hope that they will be interested and recognize it is something that they can do,” Dr. Duggins told KSN. He also serves as President of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County.
This was the first Doc for a Day focused on diversity.
