First Cherokee Nation Medical school in Oklahoma!!

[deleted1183938]

1st tribally affiliated medical school in US graduates inaugural class of doctors

The first tribally affiliated medical school in the nation recently graduated its inaugural class.

abcnews.go.com

The medical school opened on 2020 that has a class consisting of 20% Native Americans and just graduated its inaugural class. We need more of these instead of constantly arguing about White People and Asian People getting shafted in American schools.
And the Cherokee nation looks like they are doing a lot to fund the clinic and new hospital themselves from money I presume comes from Casinos.
Step in the right direction to help combat disparities.

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[Gern Blansten]

Congrats to them!

 

[nimbus]

Hopefully some of the graduates will remain in the area or return to the area when they complete training.

 

[Coffee PRN]

White people and Asian people do get shafted in every domain of education. Claiming to support equality while discriminating based on race is blind hypocrisy at its finest. You could give a boost to poor socioeconomic applicants instead and achieve much fairer results. Why should a privileged wealthy Nigerian (had some of these as classmates) get an even bigger boost just for having the right skin? Many of them failed out.

 

[Gern Blansten]

White people and Asian people do get shafted in every domain of education. Claiming to support equality while discriminating based on race is blind hypocrisy at its finest. You could give a boost to poor socioeconomic applicants instead and achieve much fairer results. Why should a privileged wealthy Nigerian (had some of these as classmates) get an even bigger boost just for having the right skin? Many of them failed out.

I don't really mind the schools like this one and about three others that are created and funded with a single stated mission to increase opportunities for physicians of a certain ethnic group. But I think all others should be more merit based. I am not sure why it seems okay in my mind other than, there is nothing hidden or deceptive. It is right there in the open in their charter what the goal is.
As you stated, the affluent first and second generation African immigrants tend to fill the majority of the spots that were intended to promote the multi generational disadvantaged students from poor inner city underrepresented areas. I think that current policies fail miserably at lifting people out of those environments. It's a minority of the students that fill these quotas that come from the environments that the policies were created to assist. I have seen the same thing with CRNA schools. The first generation African immigrants that were affluent enough to enter the US end up receiving the lion's share of the available spots and they receive the advantages that were not intended for them and deprive many poor URM their opportunity.

 

[deleted1183938]

White people and Asian people do get shafted in every domain of education. Claiming to support equality while discriminating based on race is blind hypocrisy at its finest. You could give a boost to poor socioeconomic applicants instead and achieve much fairer results. Why should a privileged wealthy Nigerian (had some of these as classmates) get an even bigger boost just for having the right skin? Many of them failed out.

Many of them failed out? How many? Out of how many? The African kids I went to school with kicked butt.

 

[Coffee PRN]

I don't really mind the schools like this one that are created and funded with a single stated mission to increase opportunities for physicians of a certain ethnic group. But I think all others should be more merit based. I am not sure why it seems okay in my mind other than, there is nothing hidden or deceptive. It is right there in the open in their charter what the goal is.
As you stated, the affluent first and second generation African immigrants tend to fill the majority of the spots that were intended to promote the multi generational disadvantaged students from poor inner city underrepresented areas. I think that current policies fail miserably at lifting people out of those environments. It's a minority of the students that fill these quotas that come from the environments that the policies were created to assist. I have seen the same thing with CRNA schools. The first generation African immigrants that were affluent enough to enter the US end up receiving the lion's share of the available spots and they receive the advantages that were not intended for them and deprive many poor URM their opportunity.

It’s almost as if their “progressive” policies focusing on race are…racist?

 

[mdo1738]

Go Pokes! Best university system in the world

 

[powermd]

I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess that the doctors most likely to want to work in underserved communities are people with ties to those locations. If the stated mission of a school is to recruit locals with ties to the area, I don't see much problem in that. I don't really like the ethnic preference, but I'd be surprised if non-Cherokee with ties to the area who was otherwise qualified would have difficulty getting in.