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So no AA>>>fewer black docs? Do black applicants have trouble getting accepted into med school? An earlier poster posted a graph suggesting that black applicants with lower stats have a higher admission rate than other races. Maybe more black applicants with better stats is the answer? Having done admission interviews for 17 years, we realized finding qualified black applicants within our admission metrics was not easy. Many good people champion DEI, citing the benefits to society. What I haven't seen is data in the lower Stat group suggesting they are successful in medical school and pass boards. Are their remediation rates and board pass rates similiar to their med school peers? There are always unintended consequences to every policy action. I think we can all agree that lower Stat applicants are at higher risk of med school and board failures than higher Stat students. The success of all our students, including med students should be our priority and they should be put into a position to succeed. My former school recruits at inner city high schools and has a summer program to introduce high schoolers to medicine. I believe AA would be better served by bringing lower Stat students in for a post bac year before med school. This should improve their success and self esteem. I would be fine if tax dollars covered this post back year.
It's an arrow man. -> No AA (leads to) fewer black docs. Yes, black students have trouble getting into medical school, that's the point of affirmative action.
Attrition rates by race seem fairly similar between white and black matriculants, 2.3% for white students and 5.7% for black students. Which you know... you could look up as someone who's been doing this for 17 years. :b
Not sure what the causes are for that higher attrition rate, but before you jump the gun and say it's due to lower board scores, just recognize it's probably multifactorial. Poorer students also tend to have higher attrition rates as well.
I don't know what the policy repercussions of your proposed post-bac year are. Could be worth a try I guess if we wanted to shrink attrition rates further. But that's another year of someone's life we're talking about too. Assuming the vast majority of low scoring MCAT students who are accepted eventually graduate, it would probably be a big waste of money to make ALL of those students waste an extra year on post-bac stuff. Don't know though, haven't researched it.
Racial Differences in Attrition Rates at Medical Schools in the United States | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The study found that students who were from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, and also from a low-income family who lived in an underresourced neighborhood had a dropout rate that was nearly four times the rate of White students who were not from a low-income family and did not live in...
www.jbhe.com
Edit: Didn't address your boards comment. You can look that up.
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