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Outline for the jury and your court your occasional background then, beginning at medical school? >> okay. as i said, i graduated medical school in 1965. i then did a one-year internship in pathology at duke hospital in durham, north carolina. from there, i did a three-year residency in anatomical and clinical pathology at the state university, down state medical center hospital. following that, i did a one-year fellowship in forensic pathology at the office of the chief medical examiner for the state of maryland. after successfully completing the three residency programs, i took my specialty ...

With studying for the u.s. medical boards at night. >> it requires that you study at least ten hours a day. imagine you're working eight to ten hours a day and then try to study eight to ten hours at night. it's really impossible. >> all residents are required to submit a personal statement. >> reporter: it's a costly, time consuming process that most latino immigrants aren't prepared for. >> one of the things i want to help you avoid is to help you -- >> reporter: ucla's img program helps fast track these doctors to practice medicine again. >> hi, everybody. >> reporter: it provides a stipend...

Track these doctors to practice medicine again. >> hi, everybody? how are you doing today? >> it provides a stipend as well as medical board prep classes and mentoring by ucla physicians. >> when i got accepted, i was able to stop construction and focus on my exam. that gave me the opportunity to take the test six months after joining the ucla program. >> they've helped 66 latino immigrant doctors, including chavez, pass the u.s. medical boards and then get placed into residency programs in southern california. there is a desperate need there. in riverside county, there's just one md for every...

Graduating from medical school but that is going to change? >> it is. here is the issue. there are people in the pipeline and they are going through medical school but they hit a big hurdle and that is residency. basically for the last 15 years, the funds that that have been used to, federal funds to fund these residency programs have been frozen and be part of the whole budget battle to train new doctors. they can graduate from medical school but they can't get into residency programs so that is why you are waiting longer and longer in line to get to a doctor, driving farther and farther to g...

I had talked about distribution. this is the distribution of the 24 hours. it makes sense why you end up in an emergency room, at 7:30, maybe that's the only time you can get to see a doctor. >> at least 63% or 64% of patients that come in to emergency departments come in after 5:00 p.m. it's all about accessible. >> you asked about the solution. it has to be a local solution. when -- if you look -- we have two great health institutions in any city. lehigh health network. st. luke's health network. training schools now. and they have -- we have a hospital, they have a connection with south flo...