Anti-discrimination rule

[duckhunter25]

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sorry if this has been asked before


For med school applications(and for that matter any type of application) has a paragraph that explains that the place in question does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, religion, etc.

My question is then, for med school, why is race, sex, religion, etc so important to them in the application process. Why do they post the percentages of each group they have at their school and try to get x amount of people from different categories into their school?

If they don't discriminate shouldn't it be based on the best canidates? It seems like to medical schools all the things under the anti-discrimination disclaimer in fact do matter because it allows them to show off their "diversity".

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

sorry if this has been asked before


For med school applications(and for that matter any type of application) has a paragraph that explains that the place in question does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, religion, etc.

My question is then, for med school, why is race, sex, religion, etc so important to them in the application process. Why do they post the percentages of each group they have at their school and try to get x amount of people from different categories into their school?

If they don't discriminate shouldn't it be based on the best canidates? It seems like to medical schools all the things under the anti-discrimination disclaimer in fact do matter.

The idea being that they won't hold it AGAINST you and deny you admission for being a certain this/that/whatever. But when you check off the box saying you're an URM, they're going to look at you a little more favorably than others.

But it's just one of those things. It's like when med schools tell us it doesn't matter where you went to undergrad and then post a list on their website of "Schools represented:" that includes Harvard, Hopkins, Yale, etc.

It doesn't matter where you went to undergrad, but they'd love to say 10% of their matriculating class graduated from Harvard...

 

[xylem29]

sorry if this has been asked before


For med school applications(and for that matter any type of application) has a paragraph that explains that the place in question does not discriminate based on age, sex, race, religion, etc.

My question is then, for med school, why is race, sex, religion, etc so important to them in the application process. Why do they post the percentages of each group they have at their school and try to get x amount of people from different categories into their school?

If they don't discriminate shouldn't it be based on the best canidates? It seems like to medical schools all the things under the anti-discrimination disclaimer in fact do matter because it allows them to show off their "diversity".

Yea, what difference does it make if a certain percentage of their class is from this group or that group? Why do we need to check off a box in AMCAS that asks for our sex and racial group?

 

[TMP-SMX]

Yea, what difference does it make if a certain percentage of their class is from this group or that group? Why do we need to check off a box in AMCAS that asks for our sex and racial group?

How do you measure the progress of minorities in this country without having those statistics?

 

[Vox Animo]

How do you measure the progress of minorities in this country without having those statistics?

With plenty of hearsay and conjecture.

 

[TCIrish03]

How do you measure the progress of minorities in this country without having those statistics?

"Progress" will only be achieved once the populus stops giving a **** whether someone is a minority or not, and assume that everyone is equal in ability. When the majority of people say "I dont care whtehr my doctor is an indian or white, but can he take care of me?" Still a ways to go, but it gets better with each generation.

 

[TMP-SMX]

"Progress" will only be achieved once the populus stops giving a **** whether someone is a minority or not, and assume that everyone is equal in ability. When the majority of people say "I dont care whtehr my doctor is an indian or white, but can he take care of me?" Still a ways to go, but it gets better with each generation.

Yes. However it has more to do with culture than anything else. If you have patients from a totally different culture it's a little difficult to understand where they are coming from and what values you share.

If you have a Latino patient for example, and they think they have "susto" (sudden fright), are you going to say? "It's just in your head?"

Of course not. You investigate the culture-bound ilness and understand where they are coming from. Just knowing the science won't help you if you don't know about the culture they come from.

So in a large way, having an Indian physician that is clueless and can't communicate well with his patients is not something that will work out very well on either end.

 

[MedicineNutt]

i think age, sex, nationality are crucial to the application process...we need to accomodate URMs or else we'll get a lot of unhappy applicants (please don't take this personally if you are URM). Now about religious affiliation and other useless information...i think they should do away with this stuff personally--it's more information then they need (info is too personal...)

 

[Rafa]

Looks like we've got another poo' white man thread on our hands... 😎

 

[LizzyM]

i think age, sex, nationality are crucial to the application process...we need to accomodate URMs or else we'll get a lot of unhappy applicants (please don't take this personally if you are URM). Now about religious affiliation and other useless information...i think they should do away with this stuff personally--it's more information then they need (info is too personal...)

I don't recall seeing religion on the AMCAS. Do some medical schools ask one's religious affiliation?