More Than Half of New UCLA Medical Students Fail Basic Standards Due to Woke Racial Policies: Report

Calvin Freiburger : May 29, 2024
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One admissions staffer went so far as to describe UCLA as a "failed medical school" where "we want racial diversity so badly, we're willing to cut corners to get it." Another committee member said, "I have students on their rotation who don't know anything."

(Los Angeles, CA) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A fixation on "diversity" is facilitating a crisis of competence among future doctors produced by the University of California, Los Angeles' (UCLA's) prestigious David Geffen School of Medicine, according to whistleblowers who reached out to the Washington Free Beacon. (Image: iStock-Fat Camera)

The Beacon reported that, according to internal UCLA data, more than half of students in various cohorts admitted since 2020 fail standardized tests for basic medical knowledge of subjects ranging from emergency medicine and family medicine to internal medicine and pediatrics, with professors (speaking on condition of anonymity) recalling tales of students unable to identify major arteries, perform basic lab tests, and more.

The culprit, insiders say, is the affirmative-action focus of Jennifer Lucero, Geffen's Associate Dean for Admissions and Vice Chair for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) for the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine who joined the school in June 2020. She has reportedly been a force for admitting minority applicants who fall well short of the school's historically demanding academic requirements while demanding near-perfect scores from White or Asian applicants.

The standards for minority groups deemed "underrepresented" are "as low as you could possibly imagine," one member of the admissions committee said. "It completely disregards grades and achievements." A professor warned, "I don't know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors. Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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