CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago high school is preparing students for medical school.

The program aims to reduce disparities in the medical field and medical outcomes.

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A group of teenage students at Kenwood Academy High School want to be doctors.

"When my mom was pregnant with my sister, I was just fascinated," Kenwood junior Kennedi Price said. "I just wanted to do medicine."

"I feel like psychiatry really spoke to me, because I've always wanted to be like I can help these people," Kenwood junior Jaylee Nelson said.

Their parents may not have been physicians, and they hope to make a change about who is treating patients.

"I want that feeling of connection I don't just want to go to the doctor to go to the doctor I want to feel lik

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