100PercentFedUp.com By Amber Crawford
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, has voiced his opposition to the new “anti-racism” policies that are taking over the medical field, saying that they are “lowering standards and corrupting medicine.”
Dr. Goldfarb, 78, is a trained nephrologist and former Associate Dean of UPenn. He spoke to the New York Post about the dangers that come with admitting students to med school based on their race, arguing that it ultimately does a disservice to the minority students.
Goldfarb said,
“I understand we need to give people more opportunities. But there are some things you can’t sacrifice. This focus on diversity means we’re going to take someone with a certain skin color because we think they’re OK, that they can do the work. But we’re not going to look for the best and the brightest. We’re going to look for people who are just OK to make sure we have the right mixture of ethnic groups in our medical schools.”
Medical schools have begun to stop requiring the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) for certain students, eliminating a major test that has been used to filter out med school applicants since the late 1940s. Now, the new push for racial diversity and equity has caused many deserving, high-performing students to be rejected from med schools because the slots are given to black and Hispanic students who aren’t required to present high test scores.
