Posted on 05/25/2024 8:10:44 AM PDT by george76
The Left’s march through Western institutions in the forms of DEI/CRT, “social justice”, and all manner of woo-woo wokeism has consequences. Let’s take schools of medicine for $200, Alex.
One of the premier medical schools, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, is failing.
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.
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“One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot. Another said that students at the end of their clinical rotations don't know basic lab tests and, in some cases, are unable to present patients.
"I don't know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors," the professor said. "Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students."
And for those who've seen the competency crisis up close, double standards in admissions are a big part of the problem. "All the normal criteria for getting into medical school only apply to people of certain races," an admissions officer said. "For other people, those criteria are completely disregarded."”
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The medical school has dramatically changed since 2020, when this female was appointed as dean of admissions:
Lucero isn’t just heading up admissions but is also chairing for DEI. You know, the racially-charged programs that are anti-white, anti-Asian (and increasingly anti-Jew) at a premier educational institution in a state that barred affirmative action via Proposition 209 since 1996. Her shennigans, outbursts and bullying of dissenters has gotten so bad that whistleblowers are trying to get public attention where appeals to the university are ignored.
“I wouldn’t normally talk to a reporter,” a UCLA faculty member said. “But there’s no way to stop this without embarrassing the medical school.”
Within three years of Lucero’s hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.
The medical school has shifted its priorities from training a top-notice doctor to producing a social justice activist “doctor” with a sheepskin.
The collapse in qualifications has been compounded by UCLA’s decision, in 2020, to condense its preclinical curriculum from two years to one in order to add more time for research and community service. That means students arrive at their clinical rotations with just a year of courses under their belt—some of which focus less on science than social justice.
First-year students spend three to four hours every other week in “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” a required class that covers topics like “fatphobia,” has featured anti-Semitic speakers, and is now the subject of an internal review. They spend an additional seven hours a week in “Foundations of Practice,” which includes units on “interpersonal communication skills” and, according to one medical student, basically “tells us how to be a good person.” The two courses eat up time that could be spent on physiology or anatomy, professors say, and leave struggling students with fewer hours to learn the basics.
“This has been a colossal failure,” one professor posted in April on a forum for medical school applicants. “The new curriculum is not working and the students are grossly unprepared for clinical rotations.”
This push for color charts over qualifications not only puts the public at risk from medical incompetence, but it taints any one of the favored melanin-du-jour as less-qualified regardless of their own merit. They will be judged by their group identity because Lucero and her ilk care nothing about individual students.
At a meeting in February 2022, according to two people present, Lucero demanded that a highly qualified white male be knocked down several spots because, as she put it, “we have too many of his kind” already. She also told doctors who voiced concern that they had no right to an opinion because they were “not BIPOC,”
Lucero is on a mission, and it isn’t to produce the best doctors in the world.
Yet, surely, you may think, these young people who can’t tell the difference between an artery and a carburetor will be failed out? Right? Right? No one seems to know. And that may get you killed as surely as a DEI pilot at the helm of the plane you’re booked on.
Indeed, how many people have to die before we get rid of DEI?
If it’s that bad, a large number of these students should flunk out and end up opening nail and weave salons. It’s a self-correcting issue.
Would You Trust A Doctor Who Got Kickbacks To Prescribe Your Drugs?
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To recognize what we are experiencing, ask any native American. The tactic mirrors government actions "helping and assisting" native tribes.
Just make sure your doctor is either white or Asian.
Nope they’ll get passed forward. The 50% are the truly abysmal.
This was exactly what I was telling my husband yesterday. For future medical care or surgeries we are going to seek out older doctors …screw the young DEI ones! You’ll end up dead on the operating table or in the hospital room.
That’s the problem they won’t be flunked out. They will be protected because of victim status and be allowed to fail, but still graduate. Then some day they will be giving you anesthesia or operating on you, and you won’t know it until it’s too late. If you’re White you’ll be in increased danger because not only, will they be unqualified, but they won’t like you and will know reason for you to live. As their DEI leader said, “We have too many of his kind already.”
A woke doctor will be much more likely to prescribe euthanasia - the cure all
White, heterosexual, male or Asian.
Good choices.
Never trust a doctor under 30.
Problem is...
None of the doctors over 30 speak English.
I don’t care what their age is I flat don’t trust doctors. Most are idiots.
I trust no doctor.
Not sure you can find a doctor much under 30 years old.
Graduate college at 23
Graduate med school 27
End residency 29-30.
If only that were so.
Do you really think a university is going to flunk half of their graduating class?
And male. That’s what I do.
That sentence from the article also reminded me of Doctor Lexus saying, "There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now."
—> If it’s that bad, a large number of these students should flunk out and end up opening nail and weave salons. It’s a self-correcting issue.
Standards are lowered sufficiently to graduate.
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