ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING A DOCTOR?
Incoming young doctors can apply in the 8th through 10th grades.
THE MATH
Bring Young Doctors Project to your school to connect your students, teachers, and administrators to a day of hands-on learning for students and professional development for your teachers and staff!
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Strengthening our communities by
INVESTING IN OUR YOUTH, THROUGH THE ART OF MEDICINE
​Young Doctors Project (YDP) is a ​multi-generational mentoring, education, and pipeline to health careers​ program for high school boys of color. Through intensive summer programs and Saturday academies at Howard University, YDDC participants are trained in preventive medicine, mental health, and health issues in underserved communities.
Selected youth join YDDC during their freshmen year of high school and remain in the program until graduation. After one year of training in the summer program and Saturday academies, the "young doctors" begin the service learning component of the program, which includes conducting free health clinics in their community under the supervision of YDDC staff doctors.

With the support of Howard University's Department of Psychology and College of Medicine, the Young Doctors are equipped to address health disparities head-on.
TRAIN
young men to solve the pressing health challenges of the community today
EMPOWER
young men to make their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods healthier
INSPIRE
young men to be the doctors, researchers, and medical professionals of the community tomorrow
YOUNG DOCTORS PROJECT WELCOMES 11 NEW STUDENTS
A group of future doctors are taking a big step toward the career of their dreams thanks to the Young Doctors Project. Organizers say the education and mentorship program is a pipeline to medical school for young Black and brown men here in D.C. Another 11 future physicians were welcomed Friday evening. News4’s Walter Morris reports.
GIVING TUESDAY |
10 YEARS OF YDP
"Celebrating 10 years in creating a pipeline to medicine for black boys."
PREVENTING SUICIDES BY BLACK MALES | YDP
“The need I see is understanding,” said Maxwell Bratcher, one of more than two dozen teens in the organization Young Doctors Project who were at the hearing. He spoke with PIX11 News outside of the session. “A lot of people don’t understand what we come from,” he said, about young Black men and their mental health, “what we’re trying to say, and what we’re trying to do with each other.”
CULTURE CATALYST MOMENT #3
Young Docs on ABC's New Years Rockin' Eve: "Tonight, we're honoring people all across the country who are galvanizing the community, and changing the culture."
A WHOLE NEW FACE OF MEDICINE | YDP
"I'd like to see a completely… a whole new face of medicine," Lawson President said.
President, 18, came from Washington D.C. with the youth nonprofit Young Doctors Project, aimed at changing the future face of medicine. He hopes to increase Black male representation in the world of psychology after seeing the effects of mental health in his community and age group.
YDP ON FOX 5 | HEALTH & COMMUNITY
Young Doctors DC helps students learn about the medial field and helps the community get healhier — all, at the same time."
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All proceeds support YDDC programming including the purchase of medical supplies, study materials and participant stipends.
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During the development phase of the organization, YDDC's professional staff is unpaid, consisting of only volunteers. YDDC is working toward developing a full time professional staff dedicated to the successful implementation of YDDC’s programmatic goals.​
