It’s a cruel reality for would be medical students. Every year over 39,000 folks apply for admission to a US medical school, but only about 47% are admitted. What do the remaining 53% do? Well, instead of sitting around feeling sorry for themselves, a substantial number are running away to an island and going to medical school. One vacationer’s gorgeous tropical island is an additional student’s campus. Some are gaining as great a reputation as those within the United States. Within the late 1970’s Caribbean islands realizing that tourism could be fickle began to look for other streams of income. They hit upon the thought of medical schools, primarily for US students who had been being shut out of medical schools within the United States. In a short time St Georges University in Grenada, (which benefitted from some unsuspecting exposure when the US invaded Grenada in 1983) Ross University on the island of Dominica as well as the American University of the Caribbean, originally on the island of Monserrat, opened their doors. They were and are extremely prosperous. Inside the years that followed it seemed a medical school opened on nearly each Caribbean island. The selection became as significantly about the high quality of the education as what the island itself offered. No 1 can doubt the success of St Georges University in Grenada. It was so prosperous, they’ve branched out to include a school of veterinary medicine, a school of arts and sciences and a graduate studies program. But maybe you can’t take the steamy heat in Grenada. Maybe diving is your pastime. If so, head to Bonaire, the island recognized for its incredible diving and enroll in St James School of Medicine. The remote island of Sint Eustasius, (St Statia), is also recognized for its underwater beauty also as the University of Sint Eustasius Medical School. In case you get bored there, head to its neighbor island Saba and attend the University School of Medicine. Is a rainforest additional your interest? Half of Belize is covered by rainforest and it has 3 medical schools, Grace University School of Medicine, Central American Health Sciences University plus the American Global University School of Medicine. Should you prefer your Caribbean islands with a Dutch influence, head for the Lesser Antilles. You’ll be able to attend St Martinus in Curacao, or Xavier Univerity School of Medicine in Aruba, which has the added benefit of no MCATS for admission. Maybe the island of Nevis can tempt you with the Medical University of the Americas. Its neighbor, the island of St Kitts is positively flush with medical schools such as St Theresa Medical University, Windsor University School of Medicine, and the University of Medicine and Health Sciences. The choice is yours.

With so several offerings, how do you select? Price is a large concern of course. All offer financial aid, though some are much cheaper than other people. Saba boasts a price of around ten thousand dollars a semester, considerably cheaper than its US competitors and also the island competitors of St Georges University in Grenada and Ross University in Dominica. Way of life is really a factor too. The island of Dominica is significantly much less “Americanized” as far as food and shopping than either Grenada or Belize. The high quality of education is also a major factor. All Caribbean medical students must take United States Licensing Exam, the USLE, after their second year of medical school. Grenada leads all the other islands with a initial time pass rate of 84.4 percent. Dominica comes in second at 69.7 percent, while St Lucia scores a dismal 19.4 percent. Compare that to the US/Canada pass rate of around 95 percent, and you may see what you might be up against. Whilst the top quality of the Caribbean schools might not equal those within the United States, for a significant population of wish to be medical students, it is the only option. Besides, you know what they call the St Lucia medical student who got the lowest passing score on the USLE? Doctor.

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In November 1973, the Gay Men’s VD Clinic, part of the Washington Free Clinic, began operating in the basement of the Georgetown Lutheran Church. This was the birth of what was to become Whitman-Walker Clinic.

For more than three decades, the Clinic has been renowned – locally, nationally and internationally – for the high-quality, culturally sensitive care it provides. This work remains critical in an area with the highest HIV infection rate in the country.
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Origins of the "Whitman-Walker" name…

The "Whitman" is Walt Whitman, the celebrated 19th century poet. It is not widely known, however, that Whitman, who was gay, was also a health care worker during the Civil War. When his brother George was wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, Walt came to his aid, tending to him in the Army hospital until he was able to return to his regiment. Walt, however, did not return home so quickly.

Stopping in Washington, D.C. to visit some hospitalized soldiers from his native Brooklyn, Whitman became aware that he could not so easily return to his old life, which seemed trivial by comparison to the suffering he saw. He remained in Washington for the remainder of the War and beyond, caring for the men in various Union Army hospitals throughout Washington. Whitman had no medical training, but he saw to the basic physical and psychological needs of the men. He often said that his interest was in helping to preserve the dignity and individuality of the patients in the often harsh and anonymous environment of the military hospitals. He took a job working as a clerk in the Army paymaster’s office, working a few hours a week for meager pay, and spent much of what he earned on food, basic supplies and gifts for the soldiers he nursed. He later published a collection of poems, Drum Taps, about his experiences during the War.

The "Walker" was Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, another fascinating 19th century figure. Mary Walker was born in upstate New York into an abolitionist family. Her father, a physician, believed that his five daughters should have the same education that was available to the men of the day. In 1855, Walker graduated from Syracuse Medical College, the only woman in her class. She married another physician, keeping her own name, and together they opened a private medical practice. The public, however, was not ready for a female doctor who wore trousers and a man’s coat. The practice faltered, and so did the marriage. Walker and her husband divorced, and she never remarried.

During the Civil War, Walker came to Washington and tried to enlist in the Union Army. She was denied an officer’s commission because of her sex, but nevertheless volunteered her services as an assistant surgeon in many Union Army hospitals, and often on the front lines. While on duty, she insisted on wearing a modified officer’s uniform, including trousers under her coat and two pistols at her sides. Walker served valiantly, even spending four months in a Confederate prison in 1864 before being exchanged with other prisoners of war.

After the War, in 1865, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor for her "services and suffering" in the war effort. In 1917, Walker’s medal, along with about 900 others, was rescinded when the Army revised the criteria for awarding the medal to include only those "in actual combat with an enemy." Walker refused to return her medal (a federal crime), and wore it every day until her death in 1919. In 1977, President Carter reinstated her medal posthumously, citing her "distinguished gallantry, self-sacrifice, patriotism, dedication and unflinching loyalty to her country, despite the apparent discrimination because of her sex."

Walker’s life after the war was dedicated to activism, and she was active in such causes as women’s suffrage and dress reform. She was proud of the fact that she was arrested numerous times for wearing full male dress, including wing collar, bow tie and top hat. In 1982, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating "Dr. Mary Walker, Army Surgeon," the only woman to have been awarded the Medal of Honor and only the second woman to graduate from a medical school in the United States. Ironically, the stamp portrays her wearing a frilly dress and curls.

Whitman’s and Walker’s experiences have much relevance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. It was fitting, therefore, that when the Clinic was chartered in 1978, the founders chose to honor Walt Whitman and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker in naming the new organization dedicated to providing health care to the GLBT community. The advent of the AIDS crisis, which followed the incorporation of Whitman-Walker Clinic by only a few years, perhaps drew another parallel to our namesakes’ wartime experiences. Appropriately, Walt Whitman himself may have captured the essence of the Clinic’s mission when he wrote, "The expression of American personality through this war is not to be looked for in the great campaign, & the battle-fights. It is to be looked for…in the hospitals, among the wounded."

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Additional Info on Dr. Mary Edwards Walker……Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation’s 1.8 million women veterans, was the only one to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor, for her service during the Civil War. She, along with thousands of other women, were honored in the newly-dedicated Women in Military Service for America Memorial in October 1997.

Controversy surrounded Mary Edwards Walker throughout her life. She was born on November 26, 1832 in the Town of Oswego, New York, into an abolitionist family. Her birthplace on the Bunker Hill Road is marked with a historical marker. Her father, a country doctor, was a free thinking participant in many of the reform movements that thrived in upstate New York in the mid 1800s. He believed strongly in education and equality for his five daughters Mary, Aurora, Luna, Vesta, and Cynthia (there was one son, Alvah). He also believed they were hampered by the tight-fitting women’s clothing of the day.

His daughter, Mary, became an early enthusiast for Women’s Rights, and passionately espoused the issue of dress reform. The most famous proponent of dress reform was Amelia Bloomer, a native of Homer, New York, whose defended a colleague’s right to wear "Turkish pantaloons" in her Ladies’ Temperance Newspaper, the Lily. "Bloomers," as they became known, did achieve some popular acceptance towards the end of the 19th century as women took up the new sport of bicycling. Mary Edwards Walker discarded the unusual restrictive women’s clothing of the day. Later in her life she donned full men’s evening dress to lecture on Women’s Rights.

In June 1855 Mary, the only woman in her class, joined the tiny number of women doctors in the nation when she graduated from the eclectic Syracuse Medical College, the nation’s first medical school and one which accepted women and men on an equal basis. She gratuated at age 21 after three 13-week semesters of medical training which she paid each for.

In 1856 she married another physician, Albert Miller, wearing trousers and a man’s coat and kept her own name. Together they set up a medical practice in Rome, NY, but the public was not ready to accept a woman physician, and their practice floundered. They were divorced 13 years later.

When war broke out, she came to Washington and tried to join the Union Army. Denied a commission as a medical officer, she volunteered anyway, serving as an acting assistant surgeon — the first female surgeon in the US Army. As an unpaid volunteer, she worked in the US Patent Office Hospital in Washington. Later, she worked as a field surgeon near the Union front lines for almost two years (including Fredericksburg and in Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga).

In September 1863, Walker was finally appointed assistant surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland for which she made herself a slightly modified officer’s uniform to wear, in response to the demands of traveling with the soldiers and working in field hospitals. She was then appointed assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. During this assignment it is generally accepted that she also served as a spy. She continually crossed Confederate lines to treat civilians. She was taken prisoner in 1864 by Confederate troops and imprisoned in Richmond for four months until she was exchanged, with two dozen other Union doctors, for 17 Confederate surgeons.

She was released back to the 52nd Ohio as a contract surgeon, but spent the rest of the war practicing at a Louisville female prison and an orphan’s asylum in Tennessee. She was paid 6.16 for her wartime service. Afterward, she got a monthly pension of .50, later raised to , but still less than some widows’ pensions.

On November 11, 1865, President Johnson signed a bill to present Dr. Mary Edwards Walker with the Congressional Medal of Honor for Meritorious Service, in order to recognize her contributions to the war effort without awarding her an army commission. She was the only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor, her country’s highest military award.

In 1917 her Congressional Medal, along with the medals of 910 others was taken away when Congress revised the Medal of Honor standards to include only “actual combat with an enemy” She refused to give back her Medal of Honor, wearing it every day until her death in 1919. A relative told the New York Times: "Dr. Mary lost the medal simply because she was a hundred years ahead of her time and no one could stomach it." An Army board reinstated Walker’s medal posthumously in 1977, citing her "distinguished gallantry, self-sacrifice, patriotism, dedication and unflinching loyalty to her country, despite the apparent discrimination because of her sex."

After the war, Mary Edwards Walker became a writer and lecturer, touring here and abroad on women’s rights, dress reform, health and temperance issues. Tobacco, she said, resulted in paralysis and insanity. Women’s clothing, she said, was immodest and inconvenient. She was elected president of the National Dress Reform Association in 1866. Walker prided herself by being arrested numerous times for wearing full male dress, including wing collar, bow tie, and top hat. She was also something of an inventor, coming up with the idea of using a return postcard for registered mail. She wrote extensively, including a combination biography and commentary called Hit and a second book, Unmasked, or the Science of Immortality. She died in the Town of Oswego on February 21, 1919 and is buried in the Rural Cemetery on the Cemetery Road.

A 20¢ stamp honoring Dr. Mary Walker was issued in Oswego, NY on June 10, 1982. The stamp commemorates the first woman to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and the second woman to graduate from a medical school in the United States.

Special thanks to Theresa A. Cooper, President of the Town of Oswego Historical Society and Town Clerk for supplying additional information for this Profile.

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Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13, 1851 – November 23, 1902) was an American Army surgeon who led the team which confirmed the theory first set forth in 1881 and proven by the Cuban doctor and scientist Dr. Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct contact.

Walter Reed was born and raised in Belroi, an unincorporated community in Gloucester County in eastern Virginia’s Middle Peninsula region to Lemuel Sutton Reed (a Methodist minister) and Pharaba White. Soon after graduation from the University of Virginia, Reed became a medical officer with the US Army in a time of great advances in medicine due to widespread acceptance of Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of disease as well as the methods of studying bacteria developed by Robert Koch. Reed worked closely with George Miller Sternberg, the Army Surgeon General, who was one of the founders of bacteriology.

Yellow fever became a problem for the Army during the Spanish American War, when the disease felled thousands of soldiers in Cuba. In May 1900, Reed, a major, was appointed president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever." This board eventually confirmed both the transmission by mosquitoes and disproved the common belief that yellow fever could be transmitted by clothing and bedding soiled by the body fluids and excrement of yellow fever sufferers – articles known as fomites. The risky but fruitful research work was done with human volunteers, including some of the medical personnel such as Clara Maass who allowed themselves to be deliberately infected. The research work with the disease under Reed’s leadership was largely responsible for stemming the mortality rates from yellow fever during the building of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s, something that had confounded the French attempt to build in that region only 30 years earlier.

After this work, Reed resumed his position as professor of bacteriology in the Army Medical School, and as professor of pathology and bacteriology at the George Washington University Medical School. His health had been in decline following an appendectomy, and in 1902, he died of peritonitis. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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The breakthrough in the yellow fever research is widely considered his greatest accomplishment. Named in his honor, Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C. was opened on May 1, 1909. As the premier military medical facility in the eastern United States, it became Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In

1929, the Walter Reed Medal was awarded posthumously to Walter Reed for his work in discovering the cause of yellow fever.

Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California is also named in his honor.

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