Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 04/29/2011 7:31:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The test that all medical school applicants take could place greater emphasis on behavioral and social sciences, adding a new component and lengthening the test to seven hours, if proposed changes are accepted.
Members of the committee that proposed the changes to the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) say that this could help better identify applicants who have a greater understanding of behavioral and social factors that contribute to health problems.
“We want to broaden the knowledge base that students have about those factors that influence health,” said committee chair Dr. Steven Gabbe, who is also CEO of the Ohio State University Medical Center. “Yes, you must have solid base in science, but you have to understand the challenges. You have to be culturally competent to understand socio-economic challenges in different groups face dealing with health problems.
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Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing and frequent critic of standardized exams, said the proposals are headed in the right direction.
“Medical schools’ leadership, as reflected by AAMC, is indeed trying to change the types of students who are recruited for medical schools to emphasize more diversity of all sorts,” he said. “There is a growing perception because of the emphasis of MCAT in medical school admissions, you’re getting science nerds - kids who are strong at mastering scientific facts, but are not so strong at dealing with patients, real human beings with real human problems, which have to be dealt with a broader array of disposition.”
“The kind of diversity they’re looking for are intellectual, cultural, racial.”
As statistics indicate, students from lower economic backgrounds tend to score lower on MCATs, which are crucial in determining medical school admissions.
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In the Bakke case where the Supreme Court upheld denying a medical school place for Bakke because he was white, his replacement, Patrick Chavis , turned out to be an incompetent and callous doctor who cost at least woman her life.
Thus opening the way for more malpractice suits against incompetent physicians, thereby further enriching the trial lawyers.
It's not unusual for residency programs to recruit abroad to fill slots in what may be considered less than desirable specialties. Psychiatry and pediatrics come to mind.
Effective medicine is compassionate medicine, and effective medicine is rooted in science. If you want someone who knows more about Macbeth than they do about physiology, pharmacology, molecular biology, and cell biology etc. to diagnose and treat you, have at it.
Option 1: A Doctor who is sweet, nice, excellent bedside manner, calls you by your first name, remembers the name of your wife, children, where you work etc. Yet his post op mortality rate is 2.5%
Option 2: A doctor is distant, rude, cold, impersonal, has to check the chart to know what patient he is seeing, yet his post op mortality rate is 0.5%
The question is what doctor do you choose?
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
When choosing a heart surgeon, I only have one question: “Do you like salsa music?”
I look for Asian or white doctors, especially men....it was hardest probably for them to compete to get into med school...I don’t trust “affirmative action” types. And, unfortunately that’s the way it is!
Just dawned on me....this will make it easier to have those “behavior/culturally” trained docs send you down the “hospice chute.” They will be able to “culturally” decide “who has more value?” The 20 yr old or the 65 yr old....
In my case, I chose the one my cardiologist recommended. They know the score.
I met with the heart surgeon long enough for him to tell me who his mentors were and what his success rate had been with the experimental (at the time) procedure he was going to perform on me the next day.
I saw him a week post-op. He admired his stitching work and told me to call him if I had any problems. Not warm, but very professional.
I wasn't prepared for the process of letting someone who wouldn't remember my name taking my life in his hands and then letting my cardiologist deal with the outcome, but it makes sense.
The dumbing down caused by affirmative action continues.
Look what it got us as “The Leader of the Free World”. Do you feel safer or more prosperous than you did 3 years ago?
I graduated from medical training in 1975 and it was tough. I had to work my arse off. My profession requires that I take an exam to “re-certify” every 6 years. The exams I took in 1975 and 1981 were a challenge but I studied hard and I passed them. Then I noticed a flood of female and minority students “admitted” into my profession. After that the exams became stupid easy and the “bell curve” was amazing. I realized that the profession of medicine in the USA is doomed to mediocrity in the name of all things obama.
Missing the point. They need less people debunking Global Warming finding alternatives for oil and more people pushing genetic food and big pharma.
The one who isn't a Muslim.
Here in Minnestoopid I am running into to many physicians that have a social engineering agenda. Along with the social engineering agenda is a lot of cookie cutter mentalitiy. A patient over 50 that is still a competitive cyclist is outside of their comprehension. Add to that a patient who keeps up with peer reiview publications (out of an interest in sports physiology).
It is reaching the point where I will no longer recognize any professional license issued in Minnesota. My business would then have to move back to Texas.
So after nursing schools have preferred man-haters for 30 years, medical schools are preferring homosexual doctors. That figures.
So after nursing schools have preferred man-haters for 30 years, medical schools are preferring homosexual doctors. That figures.
What they don’t want are doctors who can treat illness. They want doctors who will signoff on the death panel, because it will be these people that gave the doctors their jobs.
How many Conservatives work at the Department of Motor Vehicles? That’s how the left wants medicine to be.
Most on FR don’t want to admit that the lowering of standards in professions and the military has been as much in the service of increasing women in these fields as increasing the number of “minorities”.
I believe that Chavis killed more than one, and put a number of others through horrendous suffering. Fortunately, someone in the hood took him out. It was thought that it was someone retaliating for the death or injury of one of his patients....Just doing the permanent revocation of a medical license that the Medical Board wouldn’t do.
Bakke, on the other hand, continues to be a competent, productive doctor.
Be very careful when you choose a physician.
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