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.
It sounds like there's a paradoxical situation in American medicine where the standards are unreasonably high for white male doctors but unreasonably low for everyone else. So rather than having people whose aptitudes are a good match for the role of MD, you have some docs whose talents would be put to better use in R&D, while others are glorified nurses - if that.
Plus it doesn't really matter how smart you are if you're sleep-deprived, as sleep deprivation impairs you as bad as alcohol. As with alcohol tolerance some people can handle sleep deprivation better than others, but the shortage of docs means that the ones we have are overworked and not able to properly focus their cognitive abilities, even if they're otherwise highly competent.
I really don't think the problem of sleep deprivation among medical professionals can be understated, just imagine every doctor you meet having to chug a whole bottle of wine before treating you. And med schools should have something akin to Hell Week early on (obv not anywhere near as physically strenuous ofc) to test your ability to operate under bad conditions.
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.
That really sucks. I didn’t realize it was that bad.
It sounds like there's a paradoxical situation in American medicine where the standards are unreasonably high for white male doctors but unreasonably low for everyone else. So rather than having people whose aptitudes are a good match for the role of MD, you have some docs whose talents would be put to better use in R&D, while others are glorified nurses - if that.
Plus it doesn't really matter how smart you are if you're sleep-deprived, as sleep deprivation impairs you as bad as alcohol. As with alcohol tolerance some people can handle sleep deprivation better than others, but the shortage of docs means that the ones we have are overworked and not able to properly focus their cognitive abilities, even if they're otherwise highly competent.
I really don't think the problem of sleep deprivation among medical professionals can be understated, just imagine every doctor you meet having to chug a whole bottle of wine before treating you. And med schools should have something akin to Hell Week early on (obv not anywhere near as physically strenuous ofc) to test your ability to operate under bad conditions.