Posted on 07/06/2018 4:41:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The lobby for hundreds of medical schools and teaching hospitals Wednesday said it was “deeply concerned” that the Trump administration was rescinding guidance on consideration of race in university admissions.
The 4th of July announcement by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) comes after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded 24 Obama-era guidance documents on affirmative action the Trump justice department said were “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law or otherwise improper.” A joint letter from the Justice Department and the Department of Education said the Obama administration advocated policy and "positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution,” the New York Times reported.
But the AAMC said the Trump administration’s move “signals opposition to the consideration of race as one of many individualized factors in higher education admissions, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has upheld this practice for 40 years, and as recently as 2016.”
“Medical student diversity is necessary to prepare physicians to provide care to an increasingly diverse population and to address significant health disparities,” AAMC President and CEO Dr. Darrell Kirch said.
Medical schools and residency programs in teaching hospitals said the Trump administration’s move flies in the face of efforts to produce “more engaged” students and “higher-performing” doctors. The AAMC represents more than 150 U.S. medical schools and nearly 400 academic medical centers and teaching health systems.
“To prepare a physician workforce for these challenges, many medical schools have determined that it is necessary to include the consideration of race and ethnicity, along with many other factors, in the admissions process,” Kirch said. “Individualized, holistic review of each applicant—carried out under long-standing Supreme Court precedent—leads to a more engaged student body and to higher-performing students."
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Race based admissions are racist.
There’s no two ways about it.
The medical schools can continue with the old rules if they want. They just can’t hide in the fed regulations now. They are exposed.....................
These schools are putting race ahead of the well being of patients and generating competent physicians.
Wonderful.
Obama did it so they could Feed off of Obamacare
head of AAMC is a psychiatrist which explains it
if there’s a profession even less politically unbalanced than “journalists”, this would be it
“Medical student diversity is necessary to prepare physicians to provide care to an increasingly diverse population”
I think they’re saying that they want to cater to racists who refuse to use doctors that don’t match their ethnicity.
we all want a doctor who got Obamatized through school.
Could the taxpaying citizen’s free financial aid to minorities have anything to do with the med school outrage?
Most of the doctors I see on TV are Black.
I guess you can interpolate that to mean about 70% of admissions must be Black.
The real problem is this move breaks the rice bowl of race hustlers like Michelle Obama’s non-job at University of Chicago.
Medical schools pick those with lower GPA and med school aptitude tests based on color of skin. It’s a fact
Because when it comes to life and death, the color of the doctor (if there is one) is more important than the competency.
When you’re sick or need surgery, do you want the best qualified doctor or an affirmative action candidate selected because of a racist admissions committee
Bull crap! My nephew had to wait a year before the University of Michigan Med. School would accept him since they were already filled up with not only minorities but foreign nationals..........
High School Valedectorian, and in the top ten in his graduating class at Williams College in Mass........His scholastics didn't matter........
Exactly. The same way schools are now free not to take race into consideration is the same way schools are free to take race into consideration. Knock yourselves out, boys.
Raced base admissions tells racially diverse competitors that they are in some way deficient and inferior. What would it be like to grow and live being told throughout your entire life, and treated as if you were deficient and inferior! That is not equality. In fact, it kills the spark and snuffs out the spirit of life itself.
““Individualized, holistic review of each applicant—carried out under long-standing Supreme Court precedent—leads to a more engaged student body and to higher-performing students.”
What a gross lie!
“Medical student diversity is necessary to prepare physicians to provide care to an increasingly diverse population and to address significant health disparities,” AAMC President and CEO Dr. Darrell Kirch said.”
Another disgusting lie!
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