"Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?" Lucero asked the admissions officer, these people said. The candidate's scores shouldn't matter, she continued, because "we need people like this in the medical school."One of the school's key metrics is the so-called "shelf exam." This exam is administered to medical students at the end of their clinical rotations. This year, we've reached full flower with 50-plus percent failure rates in emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.
One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot
The incompetents forced through training at UCLA will be turned loose on the public. And then we'll see the downstream effects as they injure and kill patients, and the system covers for them because they are elite medical school grads, and if you think their performance sucks, it is because you don't know great medicine and are quite possibly a bigot.
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