{"id":4267930,"date":"2019-02-28T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.net\/wordpress\/?p=4267930"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:44:31","slug":"infiniti-minceys-pathway-to-medicine-from-childhood-dream-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/?p=4267930","title":{"rendered":"Infiniti Mincey\u2019s Pathway to Medicine: From Childhood Dream to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Infiniti Mincey, a first-year student at American University of Antigua (AUA) College of Medicine, knew at 6 years old that she wanted to become a doctor someday.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually, at 6, I wanted to be a doctor, a lawyer, and a WNBA player all at the same time,\u201d said Mincey, laughing. \u201cBy sixth or seventh grade, I had narrowed that focus just to medicine. I had always liked science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mincey, who grew up across Georgia and Florida, attended the University of South Florida, majoring in biomedical science and minoring in public health. As she finished her undergraduate education, she applied to multiple U.S. medical school programs, but though she had a few interviews, she didn\u2019t get into the programs she was interested in. Discouraged, she took a job with the State of Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was doing something totally different than my passion, and I had also been sidetracked with some health issues,\u201d said Mincey. \u201cI started to question: Do I really want to go into medicine? Was this just something my 6-year-old self wanted? But I decided that I couldn\u2019t give up without at least attempting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She started exploring different medical schools again. Mincey said she wasn\u2019t sold on the traditional route because she would have needed to wait another year or more to begin a U.S. program, since she had taken a break from her studies after graduation. AUA caught her attention after she spoke to a friend attending the school and a trusted adviser from the University of South Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy advisor is from Anguilla, and he had told me years ago, \u2018Don\u2019t forget about Caribbean med schools as an option,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about schools here, but I reached back out to him, and he said AUA was a good one. I started doing more research, and I found that AUA\u2019s Global M.D. program<\/a> is the perfect intersection of my interests in public health and medicine. It covers the whole scope of what I\u2019m passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mincey said her transition into being a student at AUA has been smooth. The workload<\/a> is fast-paced and intense, but she has been finding her rhythm.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to figure out how to manage your time and find study methods that work for you,\u201d said Mincey. \u201cBut the culture<\/a> here is great. I thought it would be more \u2018dog eat dog,\u2019 but it\u2019s not at all. It\u2019s more like a family. Everyone is willing to help if you ask. We share resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mincey is interested in a few different specialty areas after she graduates from AUA, perhaps internal or family medicine, or pediatrics or obstetrics and gynecology. She is eager to improve women\u2019s and children\u2019s health outcomes, and she also dreams of starting a nonprofit someday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to focus on low-income and at-risk groups,\u201d she said. \u201cI grew up in HUD housing, and I never got to have a lot of experiences like go on college tours. I had my own ambition and valued higher education, but a lot of kids don\u2019t have the resources, the mentors, or the vision to see what they can go on to do. I want to give that to other girls and boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mincey said she envisions building an organization where young people can go for both advice and healthcare.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a safe place where they could get tested, whether for pregnancy or blood pressure,\u201d she said. \u201cBut they could also receive mentorship, financial planning advice, and guidance on their academic and professional future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about AUA\u2019s student life<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infiniti Mincey, a first-year student at American University of Antigua (AUA) College of Medicine, knew at 6 years old that she wanted to become a doctor someday. \u201cActually, at 6, I wanted to be a doctor, a lawyer, and a WNBA player all at the same time,\u201d said Mincey, laughing. \u201cBy sixth or seventh grade, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4267932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aua-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4267930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4267932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4267930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4267930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myaua.auamed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4267930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}