1st tribally affiliated medical school in US graduates inaugural class of doctors

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'We're a tribe that continues to prioritize healthcare.'

Mackenzee Thompson says she is familiar with being the "first." She recently earned another distinction. This year, the 26-year-old enrolled member of Choctaw Nation became the first doctor in her family, graduating from the inaugural class of the first

Chief Hoskin told ABC News that he hopes that building a medical school at Cherokee Nation "will help increase the number of doctors that not only learn to be doctors here, but stay and become doctors here." "You want institutions, including medical institutions, to look like the community that they're serving," said Chief Hoskin.

"The hard part is building the learning environment and recruiting faculty to a rural community," she said. "There's something particularly important about Indian country asserting control over its own health care destiny," he said.One example is when the tribe sold its private jet to pay for new healthcare facilities.

 

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