-Comparative.

Isn't that... -It's about -- yeah, comparative leads me to think linkage analysis.

Right?

But... oh, no.

-No, no, no.

-No, no, no.

(sheepishly) I feel like I should know these.

I'll be the first doctor in my family.

It was definitely a challenge to get into medical school.

It was years... years of work, you could say, even before college.

I'm participating in the U.S. Army Health Professions Scholarship Program.

Over the next four years, they will be paying for my entire medical school tuition.

I'll be receiving a monthly stipend for living expenses.

I will have about 45 days out of the year where I'll be doing active duty trainings.

Other than that, I'll be in the reserves for the next four years.

And I will graduate as a U.S. Army physician.

-Oh, God.

(laughs) -Whoa!

(laughs) One out of five.

Okay.

That was a little scary, getting one out of five the first time.

But that's okay.

LECTURER: I think you all understand there are so many different things that impact a person's life on a day-to-day basis, even before they show up at your clinic.

What can we do?

There are different ways that you can get involved.

The first one is just understanding the healthcare disparities of the communities you're serving...

Especially being in a community like the Bronx.

♪ My family definitely influenced me, I'm proud to go to medical school.

When I was three years old, my father passed away on 9/11.

He was a firefighter.

♪ That's really the stem of a lot of what my values are today.

I grew up surrounded by this idea of, you know, what it meant to be a hero, and to live a life of honor and sacrifice and service.

I really couldn't think of any other way of how to live by just figuring out how to do something as... honorable as what all those men and women did on that day.

♪ I didn't necessarily want to do the same exact thing.

I just wanted to do something that was also honorable.

(gunfire) (gunfire continues) What are you gonna do?

You need to get down into what?

Prone.

Get down.

-(gunshots) -All right.

You hear casualties in the distance, asking for help, and they're U.S. military... Four casualties, to your left.

One student per casualty.

-Yes, sir.

-Yeah, right there.

-Right leg, sir?

-Right leg, sir.

"X" marks the spot.

-Alright, first thing, you expose the injury.

Injury's already exposed.

Start applying the tourniquet.

Medicine seemed like the perfect solution for how I wanted to accomplish my mission, to change lives for the better.

The healthcare system in this country right now, definitely, I think, needs a lot of work.

And I think a lot of students my age are realizing that.

We have to learn kind of how to tackle those issues at its source.

Really experiencing firsthand and learning firsthand what exactly needs to be done.