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Top med school putting wokeism ahead of giving America good doctors
NY Post ^ | September 2, 2022 | Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Laura L. Morgan

Posted on 09/06/2022 3:46:03 AM PDT by george76

Elite medical schools are deliberately recruiting woke activists, jeopardizing their mission of training physicians.

That’s what our organization found in a review of the application process for America’s top 50 medical schools. Nearly three-quarters of these institutions — and 80% of the top 10 — ask applicants about their views on diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism and other politicized concepts. The clear goal is to find the students who will best advance divisive ideology, not provide the best care to patients.

We based our review on the 2023 “Best Medical Schools” rankings by US News and World Report. We then looked at the secondary essay questions each school asks applicants, using a database compiled by Prospective Doctor. (Despite the name, secondary questions play a primary role in each institution’s selection process.)

Many schools explicitly ask applicants if they agree with statements about racial politics. Others gauge applicants’ views on or experience with woke concepts.

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And it’s not just students. Many schools are also moving to require that professors be woke, as well.

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Medical schools are rushing down a dangerous road. These institutions have long lowered application and educational standards in the name of diversity; now they are enacting an ideological litmus test for future physicians.

Recruiting woke activists instead of the most qualified candidates will both undermine trust in health care and lead to worse health outcomes for patients. That’s the last thing medical schools should do.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; diversity; doctor; doctors; harvard; harvardmedical; medical; medicalschools; multiculturalism; physicians; schools; subqualified; tolerance; woke; wokeactivists; wokeism
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To: george76

Societal collapse.


21 posted on 09/06/2022 5:10:38 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Travis McGee

Aha. A graduate of one of our top “alternative” medical schools.


22 posted on 09/06/2022 5:10:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: george76
When I was on the faculty at one of the medical schools on this list, back in the 1960s, an active discussion was held to answer the question: "Should we lower our standards to include more minority students?"

I said that we should not. A vote was held. The majority agreed with me. Standards were not lowered.

Apparently things have changed there.

I am a physician. I refuse to have as one of my doctors someone who I suspect attended medical school as a subqualified affirmative action student. I also refuse to send my family and friends to such a person.

Medical schools make a very serious mistake when they lower their standards. Standards should be held at the highest, and students must rise to those highest standards.

23 posted on 09/06/2022 5:15:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: cymbeline

I believe all the curve show the same date range of data; just that all other countries spend less then US. You can see some curve drop down and then go up or recede to the left then back to the right. To read the amount for a specific year you have to count the turns in each curve.


24 posted on 09/06/2022 5:19:34 AM PDT by jimfr
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To: george76

Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas have commented on how affirmative action stigmatizes the standing of black professionals. Unfortunately it puts the competence of all of them in question, and it looks like it’s only going to get worse.


25 posted on 09/06/2022 5:36:26 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yep, you don’t see a lot of tubby 80 year olds.


26 posted on 09/06/2022 5:42:32 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: george76

Luckily, we are of an age that unless there are special circumstances our doctors are also of an age to have escaped this scourge.

Decades ago, it often was the opposite. Decades ago, my wife was hired as the office nurse for a new doctor in town.

Most of the established gps/fps were good with bedside and patient discussions. They were often 20-30 years behind positive newer treatment methods.

In a few months many patients fled the older gps/fps to the new doctor and his staff. In less than a year, he closed his practice to new patients.

He brought a couple of new doctors into town, and that trend continued with them.


27 posted on 09/06/2022 5:49:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: george76
What does it matter? Far too many current doctors have actively assisted and participated in the “COVID” fraud and its accompanying medical tyranny and crimes against humanity.

Over the past 2.5 years, most of the medical community has utterly beclowned itself by supporting all kinds of stupidity in the name of “COVID”.

28 posted on 09/06/2022 5:56:37 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
I do not understand how someone can justify turning down a highly qualified candidate because of their race so they can accept a lower qualified candidate because of their race.

That's the nub, isn't it?

What's going on appears to be a kind of very powerful brainwashing.

Brainwashing usually isn't that powerful and requires reinforcement over time. Just thinking out loud here, but perhaps by creating an echo chamber of like-minded brainwashed people (the way the Left has done in the U.S.), you create a continual "reinforcement" mechanism.

If that is the case, someone or some organization put a lot of time, preparation, and money into building a brainwashing program/mechanism for people in the U.S.

I mean, this brainwashing thing is without precedent. It's a really big deal.

29 posted on 09/06/2022 6:12:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Sicon

You beat me to it. There aren’t too many professional occupations that have lost more credibility over the last two years than medical doctors.


30 posted on 09/06/2022 6:18:50 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: george76

RATs and RINOs have ruined the best medical care in the world with Obozocare.

The whole system is a government run disaster and I can’t think of too many people who have much trust in doctors since they allowed themselves to be bullied into bad medicine regarding covid 19. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Prior to that, they were just a body, sitting behind a ‘puter pushing pills for their overlords Big Pharma and the socialist bureaucracy.

They used to be well trained diagnosticians who made their own decisions and forged a trust with patients.


31 posted on 09/06/2022 6:21:39 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

“I do not understand how someone can justify turning down a highly qualified candidate because of their race so they can accept a lower qualified candidate because of their race.”

Neither did Allan Bakke.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision.

Who went in his place?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/the_man_who_replaced_bakke_.html

The resultant victim.

“While still basking in the warmth of media hype and just months after Edward Kennedy’s pean to Chavis as a defense of black racial privilege, he performed liposuction on 43-year-old Tammaria Cotton and killed her. “

Go woke make people dead.


32 posted on 09/06/2022 6:22:03 AM PDT by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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To: Travis McGee

Nowadays, apparently, going to a hospital, unless you’re in real distress, is stupid.


33 posted on 09/06/2022 6:35:55 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

If I go to a doctor that don’t know the difference between boys and girls I am changing doctors.


34 posted on 09/06/2022 6:38:20 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: jimfr

“I believe all the curve show the same date range of data”

I think you’re correct.

I think part of the problem is our fattie lifestyle but our medical costs are truly a disgrace.


35 posted on 09/06/2022 6:46:09 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: george76

What do they call the person who finishes last in their Med School Class? Answer: Doctor


36 posted on 09/06/2022 11:36:12 AM PDT by shortstop (You can vote yourself into Socialism or Marxism, but you'll have to shoot your way out of it.)
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