A Brown University medical student wants to register every med student in the country to vote. And the group he founded is gaining momentum.
Aaron Shapiro is on a mission. As a third-year medical student at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, he says he noticed that budding doctors are sometimes disconnected from politics.
“And I realized very quickly that medical school gets very busy, very quickly, and medical students have a lot of things to think about. And registering to vote is not always the first thing on medical students’ minds.”
Shapiro founded an organization called Citizen Physicians to make registering to vote a part of every first-year medical students’ experience.
“We essentially want to be the ‘rock the vote’ of the health care community and empower medical students and eventually health care providers, to engage effectively and competently in the political process.”
Shapiro says 30 medical schools have signed up to run voter registration drives when the fall semester gets underway.
