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Full Circle: MedAchieve’s Role in Shaping a Doctor

From Afterschool Program to Medical School, Dihara Mohamed Returns to Mentor Others

A first-year medical student at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Harlem (TouroCOM), Dihara Mohamed was born in Bangladesh and moved to the U.S. with her parents and brother at age nine. The family settled in Queens, where she attended public schools and graduated from CUNY’s Hunter College as a top student with a major in biochemistry. She is the first graduate of TouroCOM Harlem’s STEM afterschool program “MedAchieve” to matriculate into the medical school.

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