So you wanna go to med school?
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Channel: Stanford Medicine
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Keywords: Medical school admissions, Stanford Medical school, medical school, Charles Prober, Medical Schoool 101, Medicine (Field Of Study)
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Length: 58min 55sec (3535 seconds)
Published: Mon Apr 07 2014
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I just always find this kind of thinking so interesting. Here you have someone who is supposed to be one of the smartest, making such a reductionist comment with purely correlational data? Since when did we get so lax with the evidence needed to state facts. Jeeeeez Louise.
Wow. So much for the meritocracy.
Dovetails nicely with the cringey "sTaNFoRd iS hOLisTIc!" video
their studentsthey put out a few years back. Christ. Fuck those guys.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqhao49IwB8
half of the legacies I know are amazing wonderful people and the other half either dropped out because they didn’t actually enjoy medicine or use their legacy connections to continue to get whatever they want... if only there was some way to get more information about them to see what they might be like as a med student 🙃🙃🙃
Don't worry sir, your grandmother's surgery will go perfectly. She's in great hands. Her surgeon's dad was a pretty good doctor. And I hear their parents were BOTH doctors too, amazing isn't it!?
Context: This was at an outreach event for HS premedical students in 2014. The lecturer has since been promoted.
hey fuck it if they're selecting by genes, might as well start selecting by race too right
Theres a huge flaw in his logic pertaining to genetics. While yes someone who's family has made it into medicine has proof of some baseline genetic capacity in intelligence, but it is far from indicative between people. It completely ignores situational reasons for why parents are perhaps working blue-collar jobs or never attended college. Maybe they had a child early or couldn't afford college but it certainly isn't indicative of lack of capability. Neither of my parents obtained four year degrees but I perceive them both as very intelligent people. Conversely, just because someone's parents have displayed success and intelligence doesn't mean that individual is capable
“There is a legacy factor and that’s true of all school” like it doesn’t even occur to him that public schools exist