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Removing the MCAT Could Improve Diversity in Medicine
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:54 pm
Removing the MCAT Could Improve Diversity in Medicine
Apanel 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.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) should follow the lead of the ABA for medical school admissions by removing the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) as a requirement.
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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Apanel 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.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) should follow the lead of the ABA for medical school admissions by removing the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) as a requirement.
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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Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:55 pm to djmed
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Every step of the admissions process has been designed to keep me and other individuals underrepresented in medicine
You mean ignorant stupid people? Yeah. That's the point.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:56 pm to djmed
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Removing the MCAT Could Improve Diversity in Medicine
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:58 pm to djmed
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And from 2021 to 2022, the percentage of Black matriculants into medical schools decreased 9.9 percent.
I don't think he's allowed to call them that.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:59 pm to djmed
I'm sure it will increase diversity.
Will it increase quality?
Will it increase quality?
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:59 pm to djmed
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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.
The opposite is true. The admissions process gives black applicants an advantage. And often times the only available scholarships are designated for black students.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 1:59 pm to djmed
I only want white, indian or asian doctors from this point on
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:00 pm to djmed
The writer
What in the hell? A health equity scholar.
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Tyler Harvey is a public health researcher and health equity scholar.
What in the hell? A health equity scholar.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:01 pm to djmed
That's fine.. The testing should be voluntary... Anyone who takes the tests should be moved ahead of anyone in admissions who doesn't want to take the test..
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:02 pm to djmed
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Medical schools have historically been dominated by white men from privileged backgrounds
This year s 100% untrue
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:03 pm to Jack Carter
HBCU - Florida AM law school has some of the historically low passage rates in Florida. And that is with the LSAT. It will get worse.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:03 pm to djmed
quote:So he's an activist and isn't intelligent enough to get accepted even with admissions advantages given to some minorities.
Tyler Harvey is a public health researcher and health equity scholar. Tyler is also a Public Voices Fellow with TheOpEdProject in partnership with the AcademyHealth
This post was edited on 1/24/23 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:04 pm to djmed
Why stop at humans? Why not allow dolphins and elephants to become physicians? Supposedly they are very intelligent creatures. Surely, there's a lot of wasted potential there.
If we're going to maximize diversity; let's follow this to its ultimate conclusion.
If we're going to maximize diversity; let's follow this to its ultimate conclusion.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:05 pm to djmed
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Removing the MCAT Could Improve Diversity in Medicine
Not even sure there should be any requirements to get into medical school. Law school either, for that matter.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:06 pm to GumboPot
quote:That's racist. Actually racist.
Removing the MCAT Could Improve Diversity in Medicine
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:06 pm to djmed
Once my cracker, honky, peckerwood son finishes medical school and is practicing, everyone should feel confident going to him because you can damn well be sure that he is very, very qualified to have gotten where he is.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:06 pm to El Segundo Guy
The academy is such a fraud
From the people who brought you "I believe in science", "Forget your thoughts and prayers, I trust the vaccine" and "Trust the Science" comes "We demand medical students pledge allegiance and devotion to indigenous, non-western ways of knowing or else they can't go to school to become doctors."
From the people who brought you "I believe in science", "Forget your thoughts and prayers, I trust the vaccine" and "Trust the Science" comes "We demand medical students pledge allegiance and devotion to indigenous, non-western ways of knowing or else they can't go to school to become doctors."
Posted on 1/24/23 at 2:07 pm to djmed
participation trophy culture is gonna be killing people shortly
hope the bleeding heart libs don't choke on this while waiting for subpar care
hope the bleeding heart libs don't choke on this while waiting for subpar care
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