All that hard work recently paid off, when he began working at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, FL as a hospitalist, treating inpatients.
“It’s an amazing feeling to get to this point,” Sanchez says. “There are a lot of sacrifices along the way. I am really excited to start my career.”
Sanchez immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic when he was around five years old. He worked as a phlebotomist at MetroWest Medical Center while attending Framingham State as a Biology major with a concentration in Pre-Health.
After graduating from FSU, he attended the Ross University School of Medicine on the Caribbean island of Dominica and then became an attending physician during his residency in Georgia with a focus on internal medicine.
“It’s very difficult work,” Sanchez says of the residency experience. “The learning curve is huge, and you are working 72-to-80–hour weeks.”
Sanchez says the Pre-Health track at Framingham State University prepared him well for the work that was to come in medical school.
“The program really establishes the foundation you need to be successful in medical school,” he says. “I also met some of my closest friends at FSU. It was a great experience.”
