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By DOMINIC YEATMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:08 EDT, 24 May 2024 | UPDATED: 02:14 EDT, 24 May 2024

A DEI-fixated dean at UCLA's world-famous medical school has allowed standards to plummet by discriminating against white and Asian applicants, it is claimed.

The David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles boasts Nobel Prize winners on its faculty and accepts just 173 students out of the 14,000 who apply to it each year.

But it has plunged from sixth to 18th place in the rankings since the appointment of Jennifer Lucerno as dean of admissions in June 2020 amid claims that the admissions bar for underrepresented minorities is now 'as low as you could possibly imagine'.

'All the normal criteria for getting into medical school only apply to people of certain races,' an admissions officer told the Washington Free Beacon. Lucerno has been accused of flouting California's affirmative action ban and hindering the career of a highly-qualified doctor because he is a white man.

'For other people, those criteria are completely disregarded.' Among the disturbing anecdotes shared are of a student lashing out in an operating room and accusing a surgeon of picking on her after being asked to locate a major artery - a basic medical request.

The number of students failing tests on basic medical knowledge has increased 10-fold in some subjects since 2020, the Free Beacon reported.

And a majority of students are now flunking standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics among some cohorts.

The collapse in standards has turned the institution into a 'failed medical school' according to one former member of the admissions staff.

Admitting students on racial criteria has been banned in California since 1996 and outlawed federally since a Supreme Court ruling last year.

But faculty at the school said that Lucerno has ignored bans on affirmative action and allegedly told colleagues she wanted a highly qualified white male candidate pushed down the residency rank list because 'we have too many of his kind'.

Business was suspended for the day in 2021 when a Native American applicant was rejected and a furious Lucero made committee members sit through a two-hour lecture on indigenous history delivered by her own sister.

She is accused of stuffing the 25-strong admissions committee with her hand-picked members and terrorizing dissenters into silence by implying they are racist and threatening them with diversity training sessions.

'We were always outnumbered,' an admissions officer told the website.

'Other people would get upset when we brought up GPA.'

Two members recalled Lucero becoming incensed at an admissions meeting in November 2021 when members voiced doubts about a black candidate with grades way below the usual standard

'Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?' she raged.

'We need people like this in the medical school.'

Her arrival in June 2020 - shortly after the murder of George Floyd - coincided with an overhaul of the school's curriculum which cut pre-clinical training from two years to one, to free up time for 'community service'.

Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin sparked a huge surge in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, with Lucerno this week being held up as an example of the ideaology going very wrong.

Now students spend seven hours a week on 'Foundations of Practice' which includes modules on 'interpersonal communication skills', described by one student as 'telling us how to be a good person'.

They are also required to spend at least three hours of fortnight in a class on 'Structural Racism and Health Equity'.

That has featured lectures from a Hamas-supporting homeless campaigner who demanded students kneel with her on the floor and pray to 'mama Earth'.

Lisa Gray-Garcia led students in a chant of 'Free, Free Palestine' during her two-hour presentation in March, to the visible discomfort of Jewish students.

She later posted an account of the class on her social media pages in which she denounced the 'myth of clean', and what she described as 'HELLthcare'.

Another compulsory part of the curriculum is now an essay by self-proclaimed 'fat liberationist' Marquisele Mercedes, who claims that 'fatphobia is medicine's status quo' and that weight loss is a 'hopeless endeavor'.

Jeffrey Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world's foremost experts on obesity, said the course amounted to malpractice and promoted 'extensive and dangerous misinformation'.

'This is a profoundly misguided view of obesity, a complex medical disorder with major adverse health consequences for all racial and ethnic groups,' he added.

Lucero's tenure has coincided with an exodus of Asian students whose numbers fell by almost a third between 2019 and 2022.

And the students that remain have become increasingly entitled about their ignorance with one professor reporting that he was berated by a student in the operating room who accused him of putting her on the spot when she could not identify a major artery.

'I don't know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,' a colleague said.

'Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.

'UCLA still produces some very good graduates,' another added.

'But a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified.'

Lucero also serves as Vice Chair of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the school's anesthesia department where she has resisted efforts to withhold racial identities from admission committees insisting 'we are not required to blind any information'.

The university's discrimination prevention office has received several complaints about her conduct in the last year but concluded that none merit an investigation.

The school's structural racism class is under review and experts warned the Beacon that the university was leaving itself open to a legal challenge.

Adam Mortara was a lead trial lawyer in the Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard case which saw the Supreme Court outlaw affirmative action last year.

'You can't have evidence of overt discrimination like this and not have someone come forward,' he told the website.

And dissent is starting is starting to make itself felt with faculty members warning that the reputation of the institution itself is now on the line.

'This has been a colossal failure,' one professor wrote on a forum last month.

'The new curriculum is not working and the students are grossly unprepared for clinical rotations.'

'The faculty I work with have noticed a dramatic decrease in the knowledge of the medical students.'

Another noted the fear of how patients would fare at the hands of their underqualified students.

'We have asked for metrics on how these folks actually do,' one admissions officer said.

'None of that is ever divulged to us.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to the medical school for comment.

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African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?' she raged.

'We need people like this in the medical school.'

Wait, if that's so isn't what they need better doctors out there treating them, rather than ones that just look like themselves but do not know how to help?

I know, "report to the re-education camp" ..... Why let logic trump emotion?

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I have lived in the same community for 40 years and am plugged into the health care community. This sort of thing will not affect me. However, the chickens will come home to roost with these losers.

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However, the chickens will come home to roost with these losers.

Wait until they start killing patients and the malpractice suits begin to flow.

When looking for a new doc the first words out of our mouths should be "I want to see your medical school transcripts".

Yeah, I was just thinking that some of these quacks will come to a point where they will be unable to obtain malpractice insurance at any cost.

Then, they will blame racism, the patriarchy and, that old favorite, climate change.

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Not a bad idea. However check them out with the Dean of the Medical school. Grades are often infllated.

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Her arrival in June 2020 - shortly after the murder of George Floyd - coincided with an overhaul of the school's curriculum which cut pre-clinical training from two years to one, to free up time for 'community service'.

There is so much wrong with this Dean. The above really sticks out. I spent the first two years of medical School learning basic medical science; anatomy, pathology, chemistry, microbiology, etc. Had an entire year of human dissection. Then we went to two years of clinical rotations, not "community service".
There is so much information to get under one's belt, so to speak. It was like having 5-7 of the toughest College classes each semester simultaneously. I realized it was necessary, though; lives would depend on us in the future. It was like building an "information scaffold", to which one would add/fill in more knowledge/information in the years to come. I saw a few students fall by the wayside during those two years; they couldn't hack the information overload and intensity of the learning and washed out. I didn't feel bad for them; I realized the training and field required a high degree of intelligence and learning/study skills. It will be bad for future patients that the stupid UCLA Dean didn't know and/or believe this.

I would imagine (hope) that any of the clinical sites that agree to student rotations would put a stop to allowing these students into their facilities….liabilities are just way too risky.

Any chance these subpar docs, assuming they pass the bar, will be weeded out during residency? Or will they end up in actual practice?

I don't think it will make a difference.

Just look how Michael Jackson turned out...

Oh really? Nevermind...

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Originally posted by konata88:
Any chance these subpar docs, assuming they pass the bar, will be weeded out during residency? Or will they end up in actual practice?

The bar is a test wannabe attorneys have to pass. You'd hope some of these subpar doctors would be weeded out and some probably will but some will make it into practice.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Any chance these subpar docs, assuming they pass the bar, will be weeded out during residency? Or will they end up in actual practice?

If they can't pass the "shelf" tests after each rotation they can't graduate, and if they can't pass the boards they cannot be doctors.

Of course then the tests will be "racist" and they will be given a lower passing score requirement.

This is similar to UCLA law school that insists on admitting underqualified students as well. Despite the insistence that LSAT scores aren't so important, those with low LSAT scores fail the bar exam a lot more often.

Another story about the med school:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/...e-persisted-at-ucla/

This is why I only choose young, white or Asian doctors. This shit has been going on to some degree for years. I once went to a black lawyer to update our wills. They came out, I shit you not, written in Ebonics. I refused to accept the work and, of course, was called a racist.

I foresee a bonanza for ambulance chasers.

Find one of these DEI doctors who injured a patient.

Sue the doctor.

Then sue UCLA Medical School for not training the person properly.

That dean needs to be shackled and removed from any type of campus/school. It is sad the amount of idiocy we have leading us in this country. I hope we get a new start this year. Let her get treated by one of her students.

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Originally posted by patw:
That dean needs to be shackled and removed from any type of campus/school. It is sad the amount of idiocy we have leading us in this country. I hope we get a new start this year. Let her get treated by one of her students.

Let me fix this for you: That dean needs to voluntarily undergo an appendix removal by one of "her med students" of our choosing.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:

Another story about the med school:
https://freebeacon.com/campus/...e-persisted-at-ucla/

That’s the original story the article linked in the OP apparently summarized from.

What title does the bottom of the class graduate be called???? Even member #499 out of a class of 500 members... Yes they are called Dr. (doctor).... If these schools are producing substandard graduates can the school be legally be sued by the students or malpracticed patients for their failure to produce quallified doctors.. From personal experience I know for a fact that it is almost impossible to sue a doctor for malpractice due to the "good ole boy network" by getting a doctor not wanting to testify against one their own peers out of fear that they will be "black listed" because they testified against "one of their own". .............................. drill sgt.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Lucero also serves as Vice Chair of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the school's anesthesia department

She held this same exact position at University of CA San Francisco prior to moving to Los Angeles. She, along with other faculty, formed a group called JEDI- Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion .

Leftist doctors are societal idiots.