Posted on 12/16/2012 2:17:18 PM PST by Altura Ct.
When it comes to becoming a physician, the academic rigors, years of schooling, and personal sacrifice common to the effort are well-known. This process is a sort of rite of passage, an intellectual marathon that only the best and brightest can complete. As such, medical schools should select candidates best-suited to excel throughout school and cultivate the skills that will allow them to practice in the best health care system in the world. The process by which these candidates are selected, however, may come as a shock.
In examining documents made public by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), it becomes apparent that race plays a disturbingly large role in the medical student application process. The documents provide data about the applicant pool from years 2009-2011 -- namely, the number of applicants within a given GPA and MCAT score range, and how many of those applicants gained acceptance to a school. These data, it turns out, are organized by race.
A quick scan of the documents reveals that white students applying to medical school with a GPA in the 3.40-3.59 range and with an MCAT score in the 21-23 range (a below-average score on a test with a maximal score of 45) had an 11.5% acceptance rate (total of 1,500 applicants meeting these criteria). Meanwhile, a review of minority students (black, Latino, and Native American) with the same GPA and MCAT range had a 42.6% acceptance rate (total of 745 applicants meeting these criteria). Thus, as a minority student with a GPA and MCAT in the aforementioned ranges, you are more than 30% more likely to gain acceptance to a medical school.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Obviously the motor skills are there (at least in regard to sports).
Is it the lack of reasoning skills and judgement?
Sadly, this is why I choose my doctors carefully. And, yes, race is one of the qualifiers.
Yes. Without affirmative action I might have been protected from my incompetent black dentist, and a brilliant black rheumatologist I knew might have been able to help more patients because he would have been seen as more trustworthy.
Patting minorities on the head makes leftists feel morally superior, so they refuse to look at the harm that affirmative action does.
I won't go to one for that very reason.
Your black dentist may have got his degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge, that school was the AA school of choice.
I am not an affirmative action fan, but let’s get some perspective, here.
I believe black pilots are reasonably common these days in the AF and the Navy.
I have been flown somewhere in the past few years by a black commercial airline pilot.
We should remember the heroics of the Red Tails of WWII.
Talking doctors: Nearly 20 years ago, I had spinal surgery by a black neurosurgeon who was a Mayo Clinic grad. Outstanding! It was elective, meaning i chose to have it. Do not regret it.
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but do the leftists choose to go themselves to the Affirmative Action doctors or lawyers?
No, U.S.C. School of Dentistry
pushing women over men... minorities over whites...
the academic community is pushing to make tomorrows business leaders and high income earners democrats
The Medical College Admission Test has changed over the years. Affirmative Action screwed me in the mid 1970s when I took it the first time. I tried twice in the 1980s. First was for the Uniformed Services University of Health Services. I got a 59, when the max was 90. I couldn't get a waver for my age. I tried again a few years later. I got 61. I was accepted by the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, the only school that I applied to. Because I applied too late, the Army gave me a three year scholarship. Go figure.
I look for a Jew or a Jew or a Jew; I'm not ashamed to admit it.
All of my professionals (MD, Chiropractor, etc.) are Jewish, except my lawyer; he's a Paisano.
I will not consider anything else, especially anyone that has the chance of being an AA candidate.
Usually not, but then they feel guilty about their choices. Wallowing in guilt is one of liberals' favorite activities.
so most of them feel it is just FINE if YOU go to one of their Affirmative Action doctors, lawyers, or nurses... but they usually won’t ....
I get it.
they take care of themselves while not giving a damn what happens to you or anyone else
(mighty “liberal” of them, eh?)
It's all part of their corrupted version of compassion.
(FWIW I think someone should write a book about liberals titled "Corrupted Compassion.")
they are compassionate with (willing to give away) your money, your health care, your liberty
but not their own.
this is not only corrupted compassion, it is dishonest compassion
let them use their own money, time, and energy (and talents, if any) to tutor promising young people to meet the standards. and let them then use their own money to provide “financial aid” for the lucky recipients of their “compassion”
then I’ll believe it
We can’t keep up the standards we have in medicine with a third world population of immigrants, our pitiful education system and it’s socialist “health care” system. When boomers retire and are gone, watch what happens to research and medicine.
A lot of really good docs are clearing out of the commie system. If you are intellegent and have the capacity to weighthe ethical issues of medicine, you are not all that into the government telling you how to treat people and to kill people. You are dedicated to saving life, not neglecting targeted people until they die.
My nephew, the brain surgeon, is freaking out. But he thought socialized medicine would be great before it happened. If they are killing severely injured and handicapped people, not much need for brain surgeons. He’s not much into the death cult he’s dealing with.
Without lowering the ethical and intellectual standards for all professions, we won’t have any staffed. It’s the future.
Its good to have a guy with a pistol in his briefcase if all else fails.
“Is it the lack of reasoning skills and judgement?”
Have you read “The Bell Curve?”
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