If you have an Asian Medical Doctor, they are AAA. If you have a multiple minority Medical Doctor, they are not necessarily AAA, they could be As.
Which one do you want to do brain surgery on you?
Without Affirmative action, you'd trust a multiple minority doctor equally to an Asian doctor.
I wonder what the cost is on the healthcare system/US citizens when we have worse performers in critical positions.
Given that affirmative action was banned at UC schools in 1996, I suspect that you're mistaken about at least the school in question.
Which, it should be noted, means that we've accrued ~25 years of data about the results of such a ban. And the answer is that it's bad: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/californ...
A black applicant scoring 25 on the MCAT has a 56% acceptance rate.
As a medical school dropout, scoring 33S... I had a hard time accepting this.
This will increase discrimination against minority doctors. It most hurts the ones who could have gotten in through the front door but will be assumed not to have.
1: https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/26/some-underrepresented-stu...
I would not want a doctor who did poorly on tests, but a doctor who is great at tests vs one who is top in the country probably does not matter.
> Which one do you want to do brain surgery on you?
I have no strong opinion on affirmative action but this is a dishonest way to frame this topic.
Affirmative action doesn't mean an institution can produce unqualified doctors. Both doctors should've gone through same examinations at medical schools, studied same textbooks and have similar training.
Also if the school is willing to bend their standards on admissions, who’s to say they won’t bend their standards on grading? It’s also almost impossible to get fired from a residency program once you get in, graduation rates are near 95%…
I already don’t trust MD’s compared to DO’s because MD schools nearly all got rid of grading and all classes are pass/fail which encourages doing just well enough to pass. DO schools meanwhile continue to grade students which encourages excellence.
Schools that do this will lose their accreditation.
The Physician->AMA->ACGME->Physician pipe benefits everyone involved.
What's the worst thing that could happen? Malpractice lawsuits have doctors win 50% of the time when there is strong evidence, and 90% of the time when there is weak evidence.
The rich created a cartel and the feedback loop is already here.
I say, eliminate obvious cases of students who aren't trying, take the handful of obviously excellent students, and for every applicant in between, have a lottery.