Dr. Renee Sandy, a graduate of the College of St. Benedict (CSB), and Dr. Renauldo Gordon, a graduate of Saint John's University (SJU), did not initially imagine that practicing medicine would lead to a television show.

Sandy got the idea while studying for her masters degree in hospital and health administration and management after an instructor asked students to consider what they were doing to impact change in the health care system, a release issued on the CSB/SJU website said. After researching how to start a TV show, she contacted Gordon and the pair became "De Island Docs." Although living in two different places and both busy working in emergency rooms and completing schooling, they came together to assemble the show that has been viewed in almost a dozen Caribbean countries since 2012. 

Episodes of "De Island Docs" focus on health conditions that affect primarily African American and Caribbean populations. 

Gordon is currently the medical director for Western Arizona Regional Medical Center in Bullhead City, Arizona. Sandy is in New York, keeping in touch with the "De Island Docs" community through Facebook videos and considering the project's long-term goals, such as being broadcast in Africa and developing curricula to be integrated into Caribbean schools.