Healthcare was one of the first DEI fields. This was entirely due to affirmative action placing an unprecedented number of women into hospital administration positions and Medicare forcing the mass conglomeration of hospitals. Private practices are essentially extinct thanks to Bush and Obama making regulation costs unfathomable to a small business. $200 billion is spent each year in administration costs to keep up with government regulations.
I have to believe the whole “we need girls in STEM” movement has a medical equivalent. My brother remarked the other day how watching tv makes you think every doctor is a minority woman
Women get a leg up on their MCAT scores as do minorities. They also can be accepted with lower GPAs than their white, male counterparts. This is a commonly known thing in the pre-med community, and part of the reason why I decided not to pursue medicine despite being accepted to some prestigious programs.
Even residencies are starting to use DEI metrics to determine where you match after finishing medical school, further diluting the prestige and strength of some programs.
We are fast approaching what will be a huge competency crisis in multiple fields because of these idiotic ideas.
I used to think the medical field was free of this nonsense. Boy was I wrong
Healthcare was one of the first DEI fields. This was entirely due to affirmative action placing an unprecedented number of women into hospital administration positions and Medicare forcing the mass conglomeration of hospitals. Private practices are essentially extinct thanks to Bush and Obama making regulation costs unfathomable to a small business. $200 billion is spent each year in administration costs to keep up with government regulations.
I have to believe the whole “we need girls in STEM” movement has a medical equivalent. My brother remarked the other day how watching tv makes you think every doctor is a minority woman
Women get a leg up on their MCAT scores as do minorities. They also can be accepted with lower GPAs than their white, male counterparts. This is a commonly known thing in the pre-med community, and part of the reason why I decided not to pursue medicine despite being accepted to some prestigious programs.
Even residencies are starting to use DEI metrics to determine where you match after finishing medical school, further diluting the prestige and strength of some programs.
We are fast approaching what will be a huge competency crisis in multiple fields because of these idiotic ideas.
Sad but true. I feel it will take a major wrongful death suit to get this fixed
It's just STEM, the M stands for medicine.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine.
I feel stupid lol. Thanks. I just associate it with engineering so much I forget that
I thought the M stood for Mathematics.
Medicine is covered under science (biology) and technology (pharmaceuticals, surgery, etc), as well as biomedical engineering.