{"id":9186,"date":"2018-05-29T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/ucla-celebrates-3-medical-graduates-who-overcame-extraordinary-odds-to-be-called-doctor\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T04:00:15","slug":"ucla-celebrates-3-medical-graduates-who-overcame-extraordinary-odds-to-be-called-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/ucla-celebrates-3-medical-graduates-who-overcame-extraordinary-odds-to-be-called-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA celebrates 3 medical graduates who overcame extraordinary odds to be called \u2018doctor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 200 students in the Class of 2018 will receive their medical diplomas on June 1 during the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony for theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.Earning an M.D. requires unwavering focus and the stamina to survive grueling hours and demanding classes. It \u2019s a tough journey for any student, but the following graduates overcame additional hurdles to achieve their dream of becoming a doctor. Each of them is enrolled in UCLA\u2019sPRIME, a five-year program whose goal is to develop medical leaders dedicated to improving the lives of underserved patients. The program requires medical graduates to also earn a master \u2019s in public policy, public health or business administration.UCLAJoseph TorresWhenJoseph Torres was 8, he and his brother walked for three days across the h&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"medworm\">\n<p><b><i>MedWorm Message:<\/i><\/b> Have you tried our new <a href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/\">medical search engine<\/a>? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/543309013\/ucla-celebrates-3-medical-graduates-who-overcame-extraordinary-odds-to-be-called-doctor\/\">MedWorm: Dentistry News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 200 students in the Class of 2018 will receive their medical diplomas on June 1 during the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony for theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.Earning an M.D. requires unwavering focus and the stamina to survive grueling hours and demanding classes. It \u2019s a tough journey for any student, but the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2976,354,4375,10809,1392,1354,10518,3886,3025],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-called","tag-celebrates","tag-doctor","tag-extraordinary","tag-graduates","tag-medical","tag-odds","tag-overcame","tag-ucla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-2oa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}