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<p>An HBCU grad shattered a new glass ceiling after a successful Match Day last week. <strong>Tamia Potter </strong>is the <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/michelle-obama-he-light-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first Black woman</a> neurosurgeon resident at Nashville&#8217;s Vanderbilt University Medical Center.</p>
<p>According to <em>CNN, </em>the Tennessee-based University trained its <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/vanderbilt-tennessee-first-black-woman-neurosurgeon-reaj/index.html?utm_term=link&;utm_medium=social&;utm_content=2023-03-23T01%3A40%3A31&;utm_source=twCNN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first neurosurgeon</a> resident in 1932, which means Potter is the first Black woman in the program&#8217;s 91-year existence. It&#8217;s unclear if she&#8217;s the first Black woman to be offered the position, but she is the first to accept.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Everything that I&#8217;m doing, everything that I&#8217;m learning, everything that I experience is for the betterment of someone else,&#8221; she told <em>CNN. </em></p></blockquote>
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<p>Potter learned about her historic match on March 17. The date was National Match Day&#8211;when medical students discover where they&#8217;ll be doing their residency training. This year was the <a href="https://www.nrmp.org/about/news/2023/03/nrmp-celebrates-match-day-by-publishing-the-results-of-a-record-breaking-2023-main-residency-match/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest match results</a> in the National Resident Matching Program&#8217;s 70-year history, per their website. There were over 42,000 applicants and just 40,375 certified positions to be filled.</p>
<p>Tamai <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/chris-paul-graduates-from-winston-salem-state-university-provides-classmates-2500-gifts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduated from</a> Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in 2018. She was named summa cum laude, graduating with the highest distinction. While sharing her career&#8217;s latest development on Twitter, Tami also revealed that she&#8217;s been interested in the medical field since she was a teen. She said her first job at 17 was as a certified nursing assistant.</p>
<p>Per CNN, Potter plans to finish <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/more-black-families-reportedly-turn-to-homeschooling-as-a-form-of-resistance-since-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her education</a> at Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Ohio before starting her Vanderbilt residency<em>. </em></p>
<p>Potter also told the outlet being a FAMU alumna with a historic match proves that going to an HBCU doesn&#8217;t mean sacrificing quality. Instead, she said it&#8217;s possible to <em>&#8220;attain every single thing you want to and make your dreams come true.&#8221; </em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;A lot of people feel like when you go to an HBCU, you are sacrificing quality, and that is something that people should not believe,&#8221; Potter said.</p></blockquote>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Black Women Celebrate Match Day Across The U.S.</h3>
<p>Though Tamia celebrated a colossal feat, she wasn&#8217;t the only Black woman shining on Match Day. The Shade Room highlighted nine additional women who shared their excitement at receiving their residency results this year.</p>
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