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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
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 06 2019, @09:48PM
The whole f-ed up AMA intake process is wasteful of human resources on so many levels - starting with making freshly graduated and residented M.D.s into "Minor Deities", both in their own minds and implicitly in the structure of healthcare delivery in the U.S.
There are far too many competent, capable applicants who could relieve the artificial M.D. shortage in the U.S. who are denied at the MCAT, throttled at the residency programs, denied access to the available Med School programs due to a lack of ability to pay, and otherwise choked out leaving the remaining M.D.s sitting pretty on the ability to demand outrageous rates for their services, and making the whole concept of a 2nd opinion seem like something quaint you might have heard from Ward or June Cleaver, back in the day.
Arguing about racial and gender bias amongst the camels attempting to pass the eye of the needle is really missing the point.
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