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announcement by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) comes after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded 24 Obama-era guidance documents on affirmative action the Trump justice department said were “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law or otherwise improper.”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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My guess is that Medical Schools are worried that they may end up being LEGALLY LIABLE FOR DAMAGES caused by unqualified graduates that, SOLELY BECAUSE OF RACE, the schools recruited and fed into the medical profession over more highly qualified candidates.
And, IMHO, they SHOULD be liable.
Absolutely. Racist & virtue signaling in a package with a bow. Medical school admission should be based on achievement, ability and character (most important hardest to measure).
“And, IMHO, they SHOULD be liable.”
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I agree,but it would be virtually impossible to prove.
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So many in this country these days aren’t happy unless they are pissin’ and moanin’ about something. Anything. This country has become the land of spoiled, little brats.
That means a Black doctor is required to take care of a Black patient....the VERY DEFINITION of "racist."
MERIT over diversity. QUALITY over mediocrity.
No. It isn't.
And you are a blithering imbecile, notwithstanding your title or the letters in front of your name.
Thae last thing I want is an affirmative action doctor.
“..6.7% of blacks flunked out of medical school...”
And that’s after med schools do everything they can (special tutoring, etc.) to avoid having any student flunk out. Flunking out often results in a permanent vacancy in that class as it progesses, and they want/need the continued revenue.
Yeah, Obama promoted race favortism as his solution to low IQ Africans like himself and Moochie.
Wasn’t there a problem with the minority doctor who got admitted instead of Bakke?
Diversity is simply the new way to cheat when it comes to acceptance into professions and access to high paying jobs.
Diversity is used to cheat students like your nephew out of a position he earned. If Africans can’t cheat and steel from whitey, it just ain’t fair.
When the only thing you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
Frigging racist quota libtards.
Diversity is code for white genocide.
Look what is happening to the majority white european and american countries. Tell me I am wrong.
Let the creme de la creme rise to the top.
I think ‘legacy students’, students who have little or no requirement for entry just because their parent(s) were accepted, graduated and then remained part of the Alumni should be stopped. It perpetuates family dynasties, establishes and then facilitates upper upper snobbish class.
It extends to everything they do.
As socialists they always have a Goldstein (enemy) to struggle against whether real or made up. Whitey and men are the current favorites.
“Race consideration”
To what extent, and at whose expense and whose advantage?
6.7%? I wonder what is the real percentage, after taking into account affirmative action grade inflation and flat out pity.
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