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Medical Student Evaluations are Skewed by Race and Gender Biases

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 06 2019, @08:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-skewered dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Men are "scientific," women are "lovely" and underrepresented minorites are "pleasant" and "nice." If those sound like stereotypes, they are. But they're also words commonly used to evaluate medical students, a study finds.

Analysis of nearly 88,000 evaluations of third-year medical students written from 2006 to 2015 revealed evidence of implicit bias. White women and underrepresented minority groups were more often described by words about their personalities, while men were evaluated with more words describing their competancy.

The results, published online April 16 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, give "a good idea of what kind of words are being used," says Carol Isaac, an education researcher at Mercer University in Atlanta not involved in the study.

Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/medical-student-evaluations-skewed-race-gender-biases

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:39PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:39PM (#839849)

    What incorrect information are you referring to?

    Also, I was basically in medical school (phd taking med school classes). It was just memorizing a bunch of questionable stuff that I believed at the time but began severely doubting once I saw how that "information" was generated.

    I now avoid the healthcare system as much as I possibly can, the "all natural" pseudoscience stuff is probably better just because there is less opportunity to do damage.

    My point is: maybe (instead of whining about being mistreated) the "oppressed" people should start their own competing medical training system that isn't so crappy. Then I can go to the doctor again. The mistreatment of students is only going to be the tip of the iceberg of problems, I assure you.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:08PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:08PM (#839870)

    I now avoid the healthcare system as much as I possibly can, the "all natural" pseudoscience stuff is probably better just because there is less opportunity to do damage.

    Tell that to Steve Jobs.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:15PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:15PM (#839873)

      I have no problem with his decisions, he probably survived longer with higher quality of life than he would have otherwise if he accepted injections of poison.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:32PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:32PM (#839881)

        Also, wtf:

        Aug. 25, 2011 -- Steve Jobs gave no specific explanation for his sudden resignation as Apple CEO. But one possible health reason is that his pancreatic cancer may have returned.

        If Jobs had suffered the most common form of pancreatic cancer, adenocarcinoma, the chances are he would have died soon after his 2003 diagnosis. But as Jobs later revealed, he had an unusual form of pancreatic cancer known as a neuroendocrine tumor or islet cell carcinoma.

        In 2004, nine months after his diagnosis, Jobs underwent surgery to remove the tumor. In 2009 he underwent a liver transplant, a procedure appropriate for only a small number of patients with this uncommon form of pancreatic cancer.

        https://www.webmd.com/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/news/20110825/faq-steve-jobs-pancreatic-cancer#1 [webmd.com]

        So he was getting all sorts of dangerous medical procedures... Also, if this started in 2003 and he survived til 2011 that is 96 months. Only about 50% of people under the age of 75 diagnosed with such tumors survive that long. see figure 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6426577/ [nih.gov]

        So everything I've heard about this story before looking into it is fake news. I should not be surprised.

        • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday May 07 2019, @02:55AM (1 child)

          by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday May 07 2019, @02:55AM (#839973) Homepage

          Well, there's also this.

          https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_status_results,_2008 [wikileaks.org]

          --
          And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:36AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:36AM (#840008)

            Interesting, so he was having all sorts of interactions with the medical industry. The headline story that he died because he was into all natural treatments is total fake news.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:11AM (#839939)

    Also, I was basically in medical school (phd taking med school classes).

    And I was basically in law school (our cellblock had a library).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:20AM (#839943)

      Nah.