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    Removing the MCAT Could Improve Diversity in Medicine

    Story by Tyler Harvey • 8h ago

    A panel representing the American Bar Association (ABA) recently voted to eliminate the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) as an admissions requirement for law schools. The main reason for doing this: to increase diversity in law schools.

    For the past 10 months, I've been in the process of applying to medical schools. If taking into consideration preparing for and taking the MCAT, this process dates to 2020. No one in my family has entered medical school—or graduated from college—and I know from the beginning of this journey that people from the poor rural South, like myself, rarely make it this far. Every step of the admissions process has been designed to keep me and other individuals underrepresented in medicine, including Black and Latinx applicants, out of medical school.

    Medical schools have historically been dominated by white men from privileged backgrounds, making no room for racial minorities, poor individuals, and those with other minority statuses (LGBTQ, rural, first-generation). Today, nearly one in four medical students reported coming from a home in the top 5 percent of all households with an income. Only 12 percent of medical students are the first in their families to graduate college. And from 2021 to 2022, the percentage of Black matriculants into medical schools decreased 9.9 percent.

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    Improve the one element that has no bearing on quality outcomes. Makes perfect sense.

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    Medical school is all who you know,but there are rare cases.There was a black dude that grew up in gangs and did drive bys on the white people in their neighborhood just because they werent black.Then someone in that family shot at him down the street after following him and missed cause he bent his head forward just in time where the buckshot hit his headrest instead of him.The white dude went to prison and he got off scott free.Now he’s a doctor in North Carolina.
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    I'm willing to bet the actual statistics, broken down by demographics, of who goes to Medical/Law School is directly proportional to the statistics, broken down by demographics, of qualified applicants to those schools.

    DEI is a load of nonsense that basically means, "don't hire or admit white men".

    Oh and "latinx" is a stupid, made up word that nobody of a Hispanic background actually uses. Only white liberals use that word.

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    I don’t really care if th most qualified person for the job checks out my groceries or brings me my lunch at a restaurant, but I want the most qualified heart surgeon I can afford, and I don’t care if he is black, white, green, or pink polka dotted.
    Them that don't know him won't like him, and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him

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    Quote Originally Posted by trkykilr View Post
    I don’t really care if th most qualified person for the job checks out my groceries or brings me my lunch at a restaurant, but I want the most qualified heart surgeon I can afford, and I don’t care if he is black, white, green, or pink polka dotted.
    I notice you said "he", does that mean you don't think women or they/them's can be qualified heart surgeons? Bigot!

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    He wanted the best he can afford. That means more money. We all know women don’t get paid as much as men. Simple math.

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    Quote Originally Posted by theoldblackdog View Post
    He wanted the best he can afford. That means more money. We all know women don’t get paid as much as men. Simple math.
    Truth. I once saw a statistic that said for every dollar a man makes, a woman only gets 2 quarters, 4 dimes, a nickel, and 5 pennies. Such a shame!

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    In 2023? I want my doctor to hail from Kerala.

    Except for my new eye doc. She is 30 and smoking. As long as I can still see her, we are good...


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    Y’all would be shocked how many good doctors can’t get into medical school in the states due to “diversity”. They then go over seas for medical schools and do residency here in the states. Just because you can’t score well on an mcat doesn’t mean you can’t be a top notch Doctor. I don’t necessarily disagree with this notion of getting rid of the standardized test. Just like I don’t think your sex should be on the application. I don’t say that to get into all the woke bs and gender pronouns. I make the point to say, sex doesn’t make a candidate any better than the other.
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    Minorities already get an edge with MCAT scores because of affirmative action.

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    Ahh, the subtle racism of low expectations
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    I recently wrote a few letters to the AAMC. I was shocked how WOKE they have become.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clippedtoe View Post
    Y’all would be shocked how many good doctors can’t get into medical school in the states due to “diversity”. They then go over seas for medical schools and do residency here in the states. Just because you can’t score well on an mcat doesn’t mean you can’t be a top notch Doctor. I don’t necessarily disagree with this notion of getting rid of the standardized test. Just like I don’t think your sex should be on the application. I don’t say that to get into all the woke bs and gender pronouns. I make the point to say, sex doesn’t make a candidate any better than the other.
    Lots of folks don't want to see a foreign trained MD. IMO, our doctors should be the best of the best and there should not be ANY dumbing down of standards. After all, your life may depend on their competency.
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    This had to hit a nerve JAB. Hit mine and I ain't no lawyer type
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    Quote Originally Posted by MKW View Post
    Lots of folks don't want to see a foreign trained MD. IMO, our doctors should be the best of the best and there should not be ANY dumbing down of standards. After all, your life may depend on their competency.
    Getting rid of the MCAT doesn’t mean you’re dumbing down the MD pool. A simple look at the most recent research on the ability of standardized test to accurately test people’s knowledge will explain that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clippedtoe View Post
    Getting rid of the MCAT doesn’t mean you’re dumbing down the MD pool necessarily.
    I remember when you 3 socialists used to post without aliases. Getting hard, eh?

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    Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    I remember when you 3 socialists used to post without aliases. Getting hard, eh?
    You caught me. Nice label. I’m no where near a socialist but I don’t always agree with the right either. Both are equally as stupid if you ask me. You fuss at them for labeling you but then when someone doesn’t always agree you label them. Hell of a tornado they have going for you to get caught up in.
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