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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 354:1771-1773 April 27, 2006 Number 17 Next

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Noelle Benzekri is a first-year medical student with a mission. Even before the 27-year-old New York native spent a year as a clinic assistant and polio vaccinateur in Senegal, she knew that global health was her calling. "It's the reason I decided to go to medical school," the former philosophy major acknowledged at a recent meeting of our journal club on global health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Spurred by memories of her African patients, Benzekri intends to return to Africa someday to train local health workers to deliver care to the poorest of the poor.

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Drs. Panosian and Coates are professors of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and cofounders of the Program in Global Health at the Division of Infectious Diseases — both at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

An interview with Mike Westerhaus, Khayree Butler, and James Maguire can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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