Though the University of California, Los Angeles's (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine receives around 14,000 applications every year, fewer than 200 new students are accepted annually. And according to whistleblowers, more and more of those students are accepted on the basis of their race or sexual orientation instead of merit.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that a faculty member has admitted that "more than 50% of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics."
In other words, up to half of the students at what has long been considered one of the best medical schools in the world are unable to pass basic tests of medical competence.
Those tests, typically taken at the end of each clinical rotation, measure basic medical knowledge and play a pivotal role in residency applications. Only 5% of students fail each test nationally, but the Free Beacon's internal data reveals the rates are much higher at UCLA, having increased tenfold in some subjects since 2020.
Twila Brase of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom says patients could die because of this.
"DEI is dangerous in medical schools," she tells AFN.
Even the silver lining – that the worst of the lot should be weeded out by licensing boards – is not much of one; it will only add to an existing doctor shortage.
"All of us are going to need a good, qualified, critically thinking physician in our life," Brase notes. "There are only so many slots for physicians in the country, and the fact that we would have people being educated to be physicians who aren't really up to the task just means that there will be even fewer physicians left for us."
Meanwhile, as hospitals are already drowning in malpractice claims, Brase warns that this diversity initiative could eventually collapse under its own weight.
"The hospitals taking them on as residents will not want to deal with the lawsuits that will come from people who aren't actually qualified to practice medicine," she says.
As for the patients, Brase says they just need to hope that their doctor is not one of the ones who slipped through the cracks.
Affirmative action has been illegal in California since 1996.
