Thread by @ThanatosSavehn

@FamedCelebrity Re: your DIE-versity comment yesterday. Last night I was watching a lecture when the physician said “We’re seeing residents who couldn’t tell you which end is the head and which the tail [pancreas]. I’m hoping these remedial programs work.” “What?!”, said I …

“Remedial medical education for a med school grad who’s been accepted into a respected residency program?!” So I looked into it for you.

Over the last 20 yrs it has indeed become a subject of considerable interest. Colorado’s med residency program started rem ed in 2006 when …

1 in 16 med residents were found to be “struggling with basic clinical reasoning including … differential diagnosis”. By 2021 1 in 6 needed remedial med education.

So I looked further and found this from just last month in the New England Journal of Woke Medicine:

Ah. I see. Looking further still turned up this from STAT news:

The very sympathetic article made the mistake of reporting she’d sued the school. A mistake because it lets the reader find her claim, read why “no reasonable juror could conclude she’d been put into a remedial med ed program bcs of” -ism, and …

… since she’ll likely get into and out of a different res program, run, not walk, should the reader or his family find him- themselves about to go under a knife wielded by a Dr Daywalker.

And so we arrive at the logical end of passing people without regard for merit …

… doctors who don’t know anatomy as well as a deer hunter and who, even in the presence of the facts, can’t reliably reason to the best explanation/diagnosis. I don’t guess we can fall much further than this.