DEI Has Apparently Wrecked UCLA Medical School
A topic we've covered here before is how affirmative action/DEI spreading into life-or-death fields is putting lives at risk. We've talked about it happening in aviation,
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And we've talked about it happening in medicine.
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Apparently, the DEI situation in medical school has gotten worse, as investigative reporter Aaron Sibarium revealed in the disturbing thread below.
UCLA medical school hired a new dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, In 2020. Since then, the number of students failing their shelf exams—standardized tests taken after each clinical rotation—has exploded, rising as much as tenfold in some subjects.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
That wasn't a coincidence. pic.twitter.com/tLJZCqZAQf
Led by Lucero, who also serves as the DEI czar of UCLA's anesthesiology department, the admissions committee gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
"I wouldn't normally talk to a reporter," a UCLA faculty member said. "But there's no way to stop this without embarrassing the medical school."
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
Within three years of Lucero's hire, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report's rankings for medical research.
Those tests, known as shelf exams, which are typically taken at the end of each clinical rotation, measure basic medical knowledge and play a pivotal role in residency applications. Though only 5 percent of students fail each test nationally, the rates are much higher at UCLA.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
"Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students."
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
And for those who've seen the competency crisis up close, double standards in admissions are a big part of the problem.
The whole thread is quite long; you can see it all in the thread reader below.
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Isn't This Illegal?
That's a question a number of readers of Sibarium's thread have asked. As Steve Sailer pointed out, yes:
Racial preferences at UCLA have been thrice outlawed: by California voters in 1996 and 2020 and by the Supreme Court in 2023. Imagine what are like elsewhere. Nevertheless…
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