Medical College of Wisconsin launches new program to tackle doctor shortage in Milwaukee [Video]

The Medical College of Wisconsin is launching a scholarship program, giving full-ride scholarships to five medical students and training them to work in Milwaukee communities in need of doctors.The four-year “Health Equity Scholars Program” aims to funnel more health care providers into Milwaukee’s historically underserved neighborhoods, many of which are in the inner city.Twenty-five-year-old Dalicia Simpson is one of the medical students in the inaugural cohort.”I’ve worked so hard to get to this point,” Simpson said. “Every step that I’ve taken up to this point has been for this moment.”Simpson grew up in Milwaukee and attended Rufus King High School. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, but always planned to come back to Milwaukee to be a doctor.Simpson said her lived experience led her to want to start her own health care practice in Milwaukee.”Being in an under-represented minority group, I got to …