Next time you’re being operated on, you probably don’t want your doctor to be someone trained and hired solely because he satisfied affirmative-action criteria.
We’ll have to especially worry about this possibility, though, if trends at certain institutions continue — including at universities such as UCLA Medical School. There, up to half the students are now flunking basic tests of medical knowledge.
By design.
In November 2021, a new dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, “exploded in anger” because an admissions officer had doubts about admitting a black applicant whose academic credentials were way below the average of other students at the school.
“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” she wanted to know, demonstrating a capacity for non sequiturs. Forget scores: “we need people like this in the medical school.”
The time for UCLA professors and admissions officers to raise hell about Lucero’s illegally race-conscious admissions policies was then, or sooner. At least now, though, many are speaking out.
“I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,” one instructor tells the Free Beacon. “Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.”
“I wouldn’t normally talk to a reporter,” says another. “But there’s no way to stop this without embarrassing the medical school.”
Well, word is out now — and in abundant detail. Let’s hope it’s not too late to set this school and others back on the right track.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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4 replies on “To Die for DEI”
Madness, meritocracy must be the goal.
As for “African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody” it is clear Dean of Admissions is even less qualified that many of her less prepared but favored students as, last time I checked the stats, it appeared that life has been universally fatal for all humans for at least the last few thousand years.
It may not be too late to reverse course, but it will take decades to repair the damage done by the Left over the last three decades. A lot of lives will be unnecessarily lost in the meantime.
The airlines are doing the same thing in pilot hiring.
Still want to fly?
Unlike the airlines, where 98% of the time it’s like driving a bus and the need for that extra talent is only required during 2% of the time, being a doctor requires the ability to recognize the zebras instead of assuming it’s all horses. This in a profession where, with the skills of the most talented, still one out of every 10 admissions had an error in treatment that would have lost a malpractice suit, had one been filed. So, unless they find a way to indemnify the pending avalanche of less competent, the profession of choice would now be the one that profits from that incompetence. Either lawyers or HMOs.