The moment was a big deal for Johanny Lopez Dominguez. She plans to become a dermatologist. Dominguez learned to speak English at 11 years old and worked hard to get to this point.
Dutcher co-created a curriculum to treat victims of sex trafficking during her time at the school. She’ll be staying at Mayo Clinic for residency. “To have a group of medical students who are the pioneers, graduating in the middle of this pandemic, in the middle of these world-changing events is something that allows us to give us help that anybody can be a pioneer, that anybody can change the world,” Quinones said.
Those med students had to do their first two years either at Mayo Clinic campuses in Minnesota or Arizona, before wrapping up their last two years of clinical studies here in Florida.