Ibrahim received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Additionally, Ibrahim holds a Master's degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Olugbenga Ogedegbe, a professor of population health at New York University School of Medicine, has known Ibrahim for 20 years.
The two met in a professional group while Ibrahim was a professor of population health sciences and administrator at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
“Every dean has to find a way to support recruitment,” Ogedegbe said. “Without endowments, it's difficult to create a program. As a Black dean, he'll have an advantage. He's a great inspiration to all of us. I think he'll do well.” ”
Kevin Carolina, a second-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College and co-founder of the Black Coat Movement at Jefferson Medical College, said Ibrahim is an inspiration.
“For us, Dr. Ibrahim really embodies that ultimately it is possible to take on a leadership role as far as medicine is concerned,” Carolina said. “A common adage is that it is very difficult to be invisible. By having Dr. Ibrahim here, he not only continues to inspire students to reach his position, but also will also play an important role in lifting up those behind him. When we met him, he expressed how dedicated he is to that.”
The Black Men in White Coats group at Jefferson Medical College is a local chapter of a national organization that advocates for more black men in medical schools. We are looking for young black students from elementary school and early in school so that they can meet thinking black men. doctors. This chapter will also be helpful to college students in the pre-med program during the medical school admissions process.
Ignatius Haselwood, a co-founder of the group and a second-year student, said medical school can be very difficult due to the workload and complexity.
“When I started medical school, there weren't many medical professionals in my family,” Hazelwood said. “In a class our size… [there are] Many students have an ancestral doctor in their family and can feel isolated. But I feel like Jefferson was the right choice for me because of the group of players we have here. We can connect on a personal level. I consider them my brothers, and that made the entire medical school experience less stressful. We want to create such an environment in all medical schools. ”
The 2023-2024 U.S. medical student body is more diverse than previous years, despite a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prohibited universities from using race as an admissions criterion.
According to the AAMC, Black students made up 10% of the class, up from 8.4% of the 2016-2017 class, and students of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish descent made up 12.7% of the class (up from the previous year). (compared to 10%). The number of women entering medical school is increasing.
“We realized that for patients to trust the health care system, we need to ensure that the health care system and the people providing care are reflective of the community,” Ibrahim said. “We need to reflect where patients come from, because otherwise there will be differences in people's ability to work together.”
