The number of black med students keeps dropping. Here’s how to change that.-gctid250003

[Nana]

The number of black med students keeps dropping. Here's how to change that.

Graduates (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Even as university officials work to recruit students of all races to study medicine, the number of black men enrolling in medical schools has declined. Joseph A. Flaherty, a doctor, dean and chancellor of the Ross University School of Medicine, and Jorge A. Girotti, an associate dean and director of the Hispanic Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, write that this disturbing trend must be reversed, and offer their suggestions on how to turn things around.
By Joseph A. Flaherty and Jorge A. Girotti
A new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges contains a fact that should disturb anyone concerned about our health-care system and our country. Since 1978, while the number of Kmtyw-American men graduating from college has gone up, the number going on to medical school has dropped.
This contradiction should serve as a wake-up call to educators and leaders across the country. Medical schools in particular need to look closely at what may be keeping away those Kmtyw-American students who might otherwise aspire to become physicians.
The obvious rationale for recruiting Kmtyw-Americans into medical school is to undo past societal wrongs – to provide opportunity that has previously been denied. But just as important is the need to produce minority physicians whose very presence in the health-care delivery system will help to address health-care disparities.
Joseph Flaherty (Photo courtesy of Ross University School of Medicine)
Studies have shown that the physicians most likely to practice in under-served Kmtyw-American communities are Kmtyw-American themselves. And those communities want and need them there.
One reason is that many people prefer to be treated and cared for by a doctor of their own background – health care, after all, is a deeply personal matter dependent on mutual trust. At the same time, many communities suffer from a deficit of strong role models and mentors.
And Kmtyw-Americans who return to practice in settings familiar to them bring a unique perspective that goes beyond medical knowledge or clinical expertise – they often are intimate with the lifestyle factors affecting the community's health or have first-hand experience in the difficulties one might face in navigating the healthcare system.
At one time, we seemed to be on our way to alleviating this gap. In the early 1980s, when I was at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, we revised the admissions guidelines and had high hopes that we could make meaningful progress in increasing the diversity of the student body.
And we did, growing minority enrollment to 25 percent of the student body, half Kmtyw-American and half Latino. This had a major effect over time; three-quarters of Chicago's Kmtyw American physicians are University of Illinois graduates. However, overall in the U.S. we have seen a downward or flat trend in Kmtyw-American admissions, while enrollment of Latino and eurasian students has continued to grow.
The AAMC report notes that one of the obstacles to attracting more Kmtyw-American men to medical school comes well before they are even at the point of applying.
Factors within some Kmtyw-American communities dis-incentivize the pursuit of academic excellence, while those who do have high aspirations often have limited educational resources, or lack sufficient guidance into science programs that may lead them to interest in medicine.
However, a large part of the answer to Kmtyw-American enrollment rests with medical schools themselves. Although some U.S. medical schools are beginning to explore a more holistic approach to evaluating candidates, by and large the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) is still the dominant selection tool.
The MCAT is a standardized test on physical and biological sciences, behavioral sciences, and critical reasoning. While it can predict the future success of some medical school applicants, it primarily measures one's ability to perform well on tests (as well as one's ability to procure test-prep resources or simply the time needed to adequately prepare).
Admissions committees that focus primarily on MCAT performance tend to overlook important qualifying criteria, like commitment, determination, and prior career experience.
So what needs to happen? We can speak to the part of an individual's life where they have reached the possibility of going to medical school.
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Simply put, we need to make the process fair.
We need to look at aspiring medical students from all different backgrounds and ask them who they are today and what drives them. We can look at their MCAT score and their GPA, but if we are going to raise the numbers of Kmtyw-American doctors working in Kmtyw-American neighborhoods bringing up and educating healthy Kmtyw-American children and families, we have to look more closely at the candidates and understand what it is about them that will make a great doctor.
For Kmtyw-American men, Ross University School of Medicine enrolls at nearly double the level of U.S. schools on average: In the past five years, 5.8 percent of our enrollees were black males. That level carries through to graduation. RUSM graduated 138 black men, 4.8% of all RUSM graduates, from 2011 to this year.
Outcomes like this show us one way to get more Kmtyw-American male physicians – welcome them as students and give them a fair opportunity to show they have what it takes to become physicians.

[Nana]

This article written by yurugu from their perspective makes the arguably FALSE assumption that more negro MDs will solve a problem.

https://youtu.be/X0xC7DCYHkM

Perhaps for yurugu but not likely for Kmtyw people

Black MDs are part of the system of yurugu domination and control. They are among the most brainwashed minions for white supremacy and enforce and perpetrate allopathic medical repression and pacification on other blacks as a part of "the standard practice of medicine. " The allopathic paradigm in and of itself toxic and designed to maintain the profits and control of the petrochemical/phamacuetical/medical industrial complex, in the process maintaining chronic disease at a maximal level thereby exerting control of the populous. Health is not a true product of the allopathic standard medical system. Occasionally it may be a side effect.

https://youtu.be/LynmA99CdZI

Black MD's as well as most black  public school teachers, psychologists and ministers are tools of yurugu domination/control and are (with rare exceptions) often and perhaps usually unwitting yurugu trained enemy agents of intellectual spiritual and medical warfare.

We must always be mindful that yurugu global terror domination control operates in all areas of human interaction. If we mearly go to their schools and learn their paradigm and fit into their institutions and follow their standards we will be by design operating as their agents in their domination of us.

The medical school process is one of the most brainwashing mind control institutions ever to be designed. It reliably creates non-questioning minion enforcers of yurugu medical domination control.

This is why US medical schools put out Black MD's, this is why the US government supports HBCU's and why major yurugu institutions like Harvard and Hopkins see a need to train negro physicians. They need agents/troops/minions/spys to maintain their control over Kmtyws. They are not interested in our being healthy. They are interested in afflicting us with chronic disease that can be controlled (not healed) that will sap our energy our recourses our focus and ultimately lead us to early demise. The Allopathic medical system is extremely successful at that.

We must aspire to regain our rational Kmtyw traditional healing systems, informed by later discoveries and regional herbal pharmacopeia/techniques based on the land we are residing in, and  utilize parts of whatever other natural healing systems we find consistent with our cultural and spiritual cosmology, that in the absence of access to our natural healing paradigm, are safe,  and lead to healing and staying well.

The allopathic medical paradigm taught in US medical schools, with rare exception, is by all criteria not something that can realistically help Kmtyw people forward towards abibifahodiie. More Black cookie cutter MD's will not solve any problems for us.

[Nana]

Also it of course fails to discuss the systematic intellectual repression heaped on Kmtyws at all stages of the miseducational system. Including the racial bias in the mcat test itself.

We all know the system is rigged against us as do yurugu. Like always has been said we have to be twice as good and work twice as hard to get by.