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.
Doctors are already heavily insulated from those. You need to be EGREGIOUS to be punished.
In addition, part of the reason this whole thing is an issue is the medical lobby actually artificially suppresses the number of residency spots to keep doctor salaries high and there hasn’t been an increase in residency pay in decades (as far as I remember). The medical lobby is shooting themselves in the foot by eliminating qualified people from becoming physicians in lieu of unqualified tokens. They could have expanded residency slots for “equity” or some excuse, but that may cause their donors to make 100k less/year 10 years down the line so it is fought aggressively.
The whole medical establishment is cucking themselves and they’re too short sighted to recognize it.
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
Doctors are already heavily insulated from those. You need to be EGREGIOUS to be punished.
In addition, part of the reason this whole thing is an issue is the medical lobby actually artificially suppresses the number of residency spots to keep doctor salaries high and there hasn’t been an increase in residency pay in decades (as far as I remember). The medical lobby is shooting themselves in the foot by eliminating qualified people from becoming physicians in lieu of unqualified tokens. They could have expanded residency slots for “equity” or some excuse, but that may cause their donors to make 100k less/year 10 years down the line so it is fought aggressively.
The whole medical establishment is cucking themselves and they’re too short sighted to recognize it.
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.