Effectively treating chronic pain will require a broad culture shift in medical care and research, a panel of experts said at a AAAS event.

Ericka Oliver, a senior biology major at Tuskegee University, had been preparing to go to medical school since she was 16 and “freaked out” when she didn’t perform as well as she expected on the Medical College Admissions Test.

Derell Hampton, a sophomore clinical laboratory science major at Tuskegee, wants to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience but lamented his average grades.