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On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 10:12:41 -0400, Alan says... 

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> On 2025-07-07 22:10, AlleyCat wrote:
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> > On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:16:03 -0700, chine.bleu says... 
> > 
> >> we do not need doctors.
> > 
> > We don't... at least not the watered down versions.
> > 
> > Standards have been lowered so far as to having TOO many unqualified doctors now.
> > 
> > Whatever policies you're whining about now, will only produce BETTER doctors.

> And a redneck from Bumfuck, Florida is now an expert on the state of 
> medical education in the US!

Yes.

Prove me wrong.

Unlike you, Lakehouse rich boy, I'll look shit up and read it, even IF I'm wrong.

Here... I am not.

At least other news organizations say I'm not.

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Should Med Schools Strive To Produce Competent Physicians Or Social ... 

https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/04/09/should-med-schools-strive-produce-competent-physicians-or-social-activists-17723

Apr 9,2024 - Instead of tightening the admissions criteria, THE ADMINISTRATION RESPONDED BY LOWERING THE GRADUATION REQUIREMENT TO 
PASSING PART ONE AND JUST TAKING, BUT NOT NECESSARILY PASSING, PART TWO. Nary, a peep was heard from the faculty about this 
lowering of standards. This sort of social engineering at medical schools has not been uncommon.

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Report Reveals Just How Much the DEI Complex Has Infiltrated Medical Education 

https://freebeacon.com/campus/report-reveals-just-how-much-the-dei-complex-has-infiltrated-medical-education/

Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that reward scholarship on 'diversity, inclusion, and 
equity." Seventy percent make students take a course on ... 

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U.S. Medical Schools Don't Meet Minimum Standards For Racial Justice. HERE'S HOW THEY CAN IMPROVE (quotas and the lowering of 
standards)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelyncorley/2020/06/08/us-medical-schools-dont-meet-minimum-standards-for-racial-justice-heres-
how-they-can-improve/

Jun 8,2020 - The number of non-white students in medical schools has been historically low. To address this, in 2009 the Liaison 
Committee for Medical Education increased its diversity requirements for school ... 


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Duke School Of Medicine Denies Lowering Admissions Standards For DEI ... 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/03/duke-university-health-school-of-medicine-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-allegations-
lowered-admissions-standards-ben-shapiro-elon-musk-congress-dan-bishop-greg-murphy-department-of-surgery

Mar 21,2024 - Duke Health released a statement Tuesday responding to recent allegations that the School of Medicine had lowered its 
admissions standards as part of its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

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Race-Based Admission To Medical Schools Was Dangerous. Good Riddance.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/07/06/race-based-admission-medical-schools-was-dangerous-good-riddance-17173

Jul 6,2023 - Medical schools have been admitting unqualified or barely qualified applicants and dumbing down class content and 
graduation standards. Admissions policies at universities are going to change - for the better. Race-driven admissions programs at 
Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

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Code Red: Downplaying Academic Excellence In Med School Admissions

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/10/code_red_downplaying_academic_excellence_in_med_school_admissions_148958.html

America's top medical schools, worried they have too few minority students, are doing something about it. They are lowering 
academic standards for admission and trying to hide the evidence ... 

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UCLA Medical School Denies Whistleblower Allegations, Claims Students ... 

https://freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-medical-school-denies-whistleblower-allegations-claims-students-admitted-based-on-merit/

May 24,2024 - The dean of the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school on Friday denied allegations that it lowers 
academic standards for minority applicants, asserting that admissions decisions ... 

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Do No Harm Releases Second Report Documenting Medical Schools Skirting ... 

https://donoharmmedicine.org/2025/01/21/skirting-scotus-report-medical-schools/

Jan 21,2025 - Because affirmative action created dramatically harsher admissions standards for white and Asian applicants compared 
to black and Hispanic applicants, proper implementation of race blind admissions should have culminated in a pronounced shift in 
medical school demographics. That transformation has been observed at some medical schools.

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'Dangerous Trend': Medical Schools Are Ditching Standardized Tests In ... 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/22/dangerous-trend-medical-schools-are-ditching-standardized-tests-in-the-name-of-diversity/

Goldfarb argued in a 2022 Newsweek op-ed that medical schools that opt to lower admission standards to boost diversity are putting 
students' careers and patient wellbeing "at risk."

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UCLA Denies Allegations Of Lowering Minority Admission Rules

https://www.blackenterprise.com/ucla-denies-allegations-of-lowering-minorty-admission-standards/

May 29,2024 - Whistleblower allegations from eight UCLA professors accused the school of holding Black and Latino applicants to 
lower standards.

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UCLA Med Accused Of Lowering Admission Standards, Student ... - MRCTV

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/scott-giebel/data-shows-half-ucla-med-students-are-failing-family-medicine-amid-racial

May 24,2024 - Whistleblowers at UCLA have accused the school of lowering admissions standards for minority students who apply to 
their medical school, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that colleges ... 

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Half Of UCLA Med Students Fail Basic Tests Since Lowering Standards For ... 

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/half-of-ucla-med-students-fail-basic-tests-since-lowering-standards-for-minorities/54812

May 24,2024 - The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) med school has a staggering 50% fail rate on basic medical tests 
after the school lowered admissions standards for minorities.

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LILLEY: Med Schools Shouldn't Lower Standards For Diversity

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/med-schools-shouldnt-lower-standards-for-diversity

Nov 2,2024 - LILLEY: Med schools shouldn't lower standards for diversity TMU's med school policy is nothing but the soft bigotry of 
low expectations

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Medical School Admissions - A Movable Barrier To Ending Health Care ... 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMe2102832

Disparities in health and access to care in the United States have been thrown into sharp relief by the disproportionate and deadly 
effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic on ... 

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Medical School Admissions Standards Lowered | Page 5 | O-T Lounge

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/medical-school-admissions-standards-lowered/104306563/page-5/

Two years ago, in a Perspective article entitled "Closing the Gap - Making Medical School Admissions MORE EQUITABLE (e.g. lowering 
standards)

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US Medical School Admissions Leaders' Experiences With Barriers To And Advancements In Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9958522/

This qualitative study uses key-informant interviews to describe US medical school admissions leaders' experiences with barriers to 
and advances in diversity, equity, and inclusion in admissions policies and processes. Introduction Despite DECADES OF DIVERSITY 
INITIATIVES in US medical schools, such as affirmative action, Project 3000 by 2000, and diversity standards for accreditation, 
only ... 

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Falling College Academic Standards: New Evidence - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2021/05/06/falling-college-academic-standards-new-evidence/

May 6,2021 - A new National Bureau of Economic Research study shows higher college completion rates are largely the result of grade 
inflation.

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Duke Health Abandons Merit For DEI When Picking Surgeons

https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/duke-health-abandons-merit-for-dei-when-picking-surgeons/

Mar 1,2024 - Following our investigation, Duke Medical School has taken down videos in which one of its doctors, Vignesh Raman, 
admitted to "abandoning ... all sort of metrics" in hiring surgeons for the sake of DEI.