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Stimulus funds foster medical diversity through new Stanford internship program
Medical student Cam Tu Nguyen touched her 74-year-old patient’s hand then spoke in her native tongue, Vietnamese, helping to soothe the elderly man’s worries. He had arrived at Stanford Hospital & Clinics a few days earlier, and became upset because he wasn’t sleeping well. He wanted to go home.
The patient, Hue Ngo, a Vietnamese immigrant, looked a little like her grandfather.
Nguyen is one of 14 fourth-year medical student interns from minority institutions whose travel and living expenses will be paid for out of a two-year grant of $400,000 awarded to Stanford from the National Institutes of Health allocated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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