'A Failed Medical School': How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA

Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame.

Long considered one of the best medical schools in the world, the University of California, Los Angeles's David Geffen School of Medicine receives as many as 14,000 applications a year. Of those, it accepted just 173 students in the 2023 admissions cycle, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent. The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).

Without those stellar stats, some doctors at the school say, students can struggle to keep pace with the demanding curriculum.

So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for the top-tier medical school, according to two people present for the committee's meeting.

Yes, Old Joe continues to “forgive” student loans by paying them off - using taxpayer $$ from people who didn’t take out student loans - or like us, paid them off.

“Student Loan Forgiveness Program: The Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers.”

Workaround from SCOTUS decision forbidding - lawsuits have been filed but by the time they work themselves through the corrupt “justice” system, the money has already been paid out:

“President Biden has announced that his administration will pursue a new path for student debt relief, which will involve the Higher Education Act of 1965.”

Yes, I worked my way through college and medical school, never went into debt. My wife and I slept on box springs supported by concrete blocks, ate on a card table, cooked on a hot plate. I put her through four years of college on a resident's salary (my first year it was $200 per month, $190 after income tax).

When I became a practicing physician, I established a scholarship to educate people who could not otherwise afford college. I don't know how many people I educated.

There is no justice in forcing me--or anyone else--to pay off someone else's student loans.

My husband (first in his family to go to college) paid off his student loans from an insurance policy he received after his father died - he was still in college at the time.

I paid off my kids’ student loans with money I received from my mother’s death. Got the house paid off too..

We expected exactly no one to pay off these loans for us, we incurred the debts and felt responsible for them and did the responsible thing.

Next, Biden will offer to pay off credit card debt. Wait for it.

” those admitted with lesser qualifications will fail out in a quarter “

Oh I dunno. Every med school has a cohort of liberal arts majors who are ‘culturally broadening’ admits. They all didn’t have to be Revelle College biobots. And even those guys told me they didn’t think med school was as hard as biochem at UCSD. You tell me, you went there. But not med school, huh? I’m sure you knew people. People I knew at UCSD med school...knew one who had a Nutrition degree, took “Physics for Nurses” to cover the physics requirement. Thought that was clever, but ridiculous.

Me, I think they’re all frauds. I did biology AND engineering. I can safely tell you that biology was FAR easier then virtually anything in engineering past basic drafting; bout the only hard class I saw there was OChem. And even that was just a lotta memorization. Not quite like basic dynamics or Computational Fluid Dynamics (which is admittedly not all that difficult either once you understand the underlying assumptions of continuum mechanics).

I'd rather get my health care from Matt Foley who lives in a van down by the river that a UCLA grad. Or, nearly any Med School grad.

Example of what is being taken as a "Hippocratic Oath" today:

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Class of 2024 Oath

As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. We honor the 700,000+ lives lost to COVID-19, despite the sacrifices of health care workers.

We recognize the fundamental failings of our health care and political systems in serving vulnerable communities. This oath is the first step in our enduring commitment to repairing the injustices against those historically ignored and abused in medicine: Black patients, Indigenous patients, Patients of Color and all marginalized populations who have received substandard care as a result of their identity and limited resources.

Acknowledging the privilege and responsibility that come with being a physician, I take this oath as a call to action to fulfill my duty to patients, to the medical profession and to society.

Thereby, I pledge as a physician and lifelong student of medicine:

I will support and collaborate with my colleagues across disciplines and professions, while respecting the patient’s vital role on the health care team.

I will honor my physical, mental and emotional health so as to not lessen the quality of care I provide.

I will carry on the legacy of my predecessors by mentoring the next generation of diverse physicians.

I will recognize the pivotal role of ethical research in the advancement of medicine and commit myself to endless scholarship with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.

I will care for my patients’ holistic well-being, not solely their pathology. With empathy, compassion and humility, I will prioritize understanding each patient’s narrative, background and experiences while protecting privacy and autonomy.

I will champion diversity in both medicine and society, and promote an inclusive environment by respecting the perspectives of others and relentlessly seeking to identify and eliminate my personal biases.

I will be an ally to those of low socioeconomic status, the BIPOC community, the LGBTQIA+ community, womxn/women, differently-abled individuals and other underserved groups in order to dismantle the systemic racism and prejudice that medical professionals and society have perpetuated.

I will educate myself on social determinants of health in order to use my voice as a physician to advocate for a more equitable health care system from the local to the global level.

I will restore trust between the health care community and the population in which I serve by holding myself and others accountable, and by combating misinformation in order to improve health literacy. v In making this oath, I embrace the ever-changing responsibilities of being a physician and pledge to uphold the integrity of the profession in the clinic and beyond.

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