Medical Schools Rip Trump Move Against Race Consideration At Universities

Forbes ^ | July 4, 2018 | Bruce Japsen

[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announcement by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) comes after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded 24 Obama-era guidance documents on affirmative action the Trump justice department said were “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law or otherwise improper.”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."

[DoughtyOne]

Let minorities earn it like everyone else.

I thought we wanted a color blind society.

That’s what the Leftist have been telling us for 50 years.

Well, here it finally is.

[leopud]

“””....as most European whites who have had to struggle when competing academically against Jews and East Asians can tell you....”
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Well, in case you haven’t noticed, the term “Jew” relates to the religion: Judaism. The term “Hebrew” relates to the ethnicity/heritage.

[ozaukeemom]

Well, then I want the same option. Since, the odds are higher of an AA doctor being less qualified than others, I would like the odds more in my favor when it comes to medical treatment.
I would like to point out that I don’t usually pay that much attention to the race of any physician I deal with.

[Albion Wilde]

I have lived among east coast Jews in several cities going on eight decades, and have never before heard that particular pecksniffery.

[cranked]

Most medical schools support racism.....

[trebb]

“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.

While there are some different rates of some diseases among some populations, we all have Human bodies that work the same way - how does 'diversity in ethnicity" of doctors improve the care?

[Labyrinthos]

“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.

And medical schools can continue to use race and ethnicity in the admissions process, without the US Gov'ment guidelines.

[9YearLurker]

Plus you know they find ways to pass those who shouldn’t pass.

[Neoliberalnot]

Don’t be redundant. Larceny and theft are synonymous. Haha

[maddogtiger]

The standards for medical schools were lowered under Clinton in the ninties. Now anyone flunking out of Vet school can easily enter Med school.

[mewzilla]

I want a doctor who knows what he or she is doing, regardless of race.

While medical schools just want warm bodies. Any warm bodies. Dandy. I could give a rat's hairy hind end about skin color. But I sure as heck will be prefering older doctors for a while. longer.

[Neoliberalnot]

Honorary degrees are not degrees in any sense of academic meaning. They are simple awards, often given out to the politically connected, politically correct, or large donors. Being a pro life leader does make her a very fine person.

[Neoliberalnot]

would like to point out that I don’t usually pay that much attention to the race of any physician I deal with.””

Then you would be astounded at the gross differences in admission standards. You should pay very close attention to the race of your doctor. Favored minorities do not get in or graduate based on merit and performance. Performance levels in professional schools have a very wide range.

[Albion Wilde]

Honorary degrees are not degrees in any sense of academic meaning. They are simple awards, often given out to the politically connected, politically correct, or large donors. Being a pro life leader does make her a very fine person.

I am well aware of the honorary degree criteria, FRiend, having multiple (white) family members with advanced degrees that they both earned and paid for. You are determined to argue that Dr. Mildred Jefferson was unworthy, implying that all blacks are; that it is impossible that she, or George Washington Carver, or any other black person who achieved academically before affirmative action did so unworthily. I reject that implication.

Have a look at Nathan Mossell, who graduated from the ivy league University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1882. Trust me, there was no affirmative action then.

When Nathan Mossell crossed the stage
of Philadelphia’s Academy of Music to receive his medical diploma in
the spring of 1882, his white peers saluted him with “almost deafening applause,”
he wrote in his short autobiography. As an honor student graduating
in the top quarter of his class, Mossell had triumphed
over the virulent racism displayed by many of
his classmates and professors.

[CodeToad]

“Medical schools pick those with lower GPA and med school aptitude tests based on color of skin. It’s a fact”

Obama also was providing incentives for foreign students to attend US medical schools, pushing out US students.

[CodeToad]

“Plus you know they find ways to pass those who shouldn’t pass.”

At less than a 1% washout rate, you know they are. Med school was once a tough school. I know of no other school that has less than a 1% washout rate.

[Neoliberalnot]

Notably impressive. You can add T. Sowell and Walter Williams too.

[Albion Wilde]

Way ahead of you. See post 49.

[9YearLurker]

I know a previous professor in the humanities at Harvard who was outright told that she could neither flunk nor give the lowest passing grade to any racial minorities in her classes.

I am sure such policies apply elsewhere, though perhaps communicated less overtly.

[CodeToad]

I know a school where a black female student turned in no homework or exams in Calculus I and was given a ‘D’ to pass her on. Title IV funding is at risk with veterans and minorities. Schools want that funding since so many live on it so they won’t flunk any Title IV funded student.