Use no "minority" doctors; save a life (yours, or a loved one's)
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new medical school training device is obviously racist because the subject is a white male/female/it, but at least it has no disqualifying genitalia
University of Illinois medical school pushes ‘equitable assessments’ for professors
(The headline doesn’t mean assessing professors, it’s referring to “disadvantaged” students’ medical competence and grades.)
“Equitable assessments and grading practices emphasize the process of learning versus performance outcomes and the attainment of grades,” the page, linked on the college’s website emphasizes.
[RELATED: Harvard students call grading reform ‘racist’ in petition]
One of the listed benefits of grading according to equity is that the practice allows professors to “respect the diversity of students’ social identities as well as the diversity of student interests.”
It’s not that there aren’t minority medical students who are competent, just that, how will you know that it’s one of them who is diagnosing or operating on you?
Related:
UCLA med students alarmingly sub-standard, as school 'cuts corners', admits applicants based on race
Over 50% of UCLA med students failed standardized tests on family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
A professor described one operating room incident, during which a student could not identify a major artery when asked.
Here’s a post I found from one of those would-be medical students who feels picked on because , essentially, he or she is incompetent, “but I’m trying to get better”.
Are professors who berate, criticise and insult our entire existence helping us and our future as doctors in some way?
I did a case presentation to the chief (head of the dept) today. And he insulted the effort I put into studying, my eligibility to be in medical school, [questioned] how I possibly passed my previous exams, my ability to present a case....my understanding of the subject and literally everything I've been struggling to get better at. People like him make me question my choice of wanting to be a doctor, not because I don't have the capability but because I'm unwingly being molded to become an emotionless machine. I feel like I'm not the person I used to be before college. I'm actually getting used to being in atoxic environment and I think twice before even complaining about it. I want to become a good doctor, but I absolutely hate the person I am becoming
