Maleficarum
03-28-2009, 02:51 PM
(EMDP) aimed to attract bright students from state schools in inner London who had A-level results that were far too poor to gain entry to medical school and show that, with the right help, they could succeed. Students would normally require two As and a B at A level, but the scheme, called the Extended Medical Degree Programme, accepted those who had managed no better than three Cs.
many of the students who are from lower professional and managerial groups have a Black African heritage and from families headed by women….Many of the students classified as being from semiroutine and routine backgrounds are from South African families.
The selected students have an extra year at medical school and they are hot-housed. They have regular additional tutorials compared to “ordinary” students. Currently, the programme is supported by two full time academics; one part time administrator; four part time academics and 15 postgraduates and academics who provide about 130 small group tutorials per year. A conservative estimate for the total cost for this is £190,000.
This is racial discrimination. It is not acceptable. It is no excuse to say that it is “positive” discrimination. I wrote about a young patient of mine
Robert ... is 19 now. He failed to get into medical school last year. He does not belong to any modern “right-on” minority. He is white and heterosexual. He does not have dyslexia, tracking disorders or ADHD. He probably puts C of E on forms that ask about religion. He is the only child of a single parent family. His father was killed in an RTA when he was a toddler. Robert went to one of the local comprehensives. It is not a sink comprehensive but it is not good. They rarely get anyone into Oxbridge. They supported Robert as best they could. He got 4 A*s, 5 As and a B at GCSE. He went on to do Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology for AS level and got 3 As and a B. He was offered 2 As and a B to get into medical school (probably a slightly lower offer than he would have got had he been at a private school). He got an A and 2 Bs. By his own admission, he “cocked up” the maths paper. So Robert is not going to medical school
Robert feels bitter about the EDMP programme. Do you blame him?
I hate all this so much. I hate the way that Cambridge University (and just wait for the others to follow) has just been castigated for saying that it is going to take only the brightest students, the students who have managed to get the new A* at “A” level. You do not solve the problems of poor state education by forcing the Universities to dumb down.
One of the students taken on in 2002 by King’s College Medical School under EMDP dumbing down was Virginia Jibowu. Virginia Jibowu has had problems whilst she has been a student. She has failed some exams. She feels she has been badly treated and subjected to racism. So she is going to sue King’s College.
A BLACK medical student who claims she was bullied by racists on her course is suing her college for more than £300,000.
Virginia Jibowu, 25, from South Lambeth, says that she was ostracised by white students in an "institutionally racist" environment at London's King's College medical school. She says that while the students she has accused of racism graduated, the college refused to investigate many of her complaints, deliberately failed her and tried to stop her re-sitting the course.
Ms Jibowu is suing the college, which is part of the University of London, at Central London County Court for harassment, race discrimination and victimisation.
In legal papers submitted to the court, she said: "All of the alleged racists are now practising as doctors in the NHS. This can only ingrain the problem of institutional racism within the medical practice." Ms Jibowu is demanding more than £300,000 for loss of earnings, aggravated damages and injury to health and feelings.
But if she fails to finally qualify from the course, she is expected to sue at the High Court for further compensation for the loss of her career, which could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
But there is another kind of racism. A form of racism that few dare mention. It’s called “playing the race card”. It happens in the NHS. It happens in the police force. It happens everywhere. In the NHS, there is a certain sort of poorly performing doctor who, if criticised, immediately instructs his lawyers to issue proceedings for racial discrimination. This phenomenon is just as bad as ordinary racism, but more difficult to write about. It is not politically correct to suggest it happens.
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2009/03/kings-college-medical-school-accused-of.html
many of the students who are from lower professional and managerial groups have a Black African heritage and from families headed by women….Many of the students classified as being from semiroutine and routine backgrounds are from South African families.
The selected students have an extra year at medical school and they are hot-housed. They have regular additional tutorials compared to “ordinary” students. Currently, the programme is supported by two full time academics; one part time administrator; four part time academics and 15 postgraduates and academics who provide about 130 small group tutorials per year. A conservative estimate for the total cost for this is £190,000.
This is racial discrimination. It is not acceptable. It is no excuse to say that it is “positive” discrimination. I wrote about a young patient of mine
Robert ... is 19 now. He failed to get into medical school last year. He does not belong to any modern “right-on” minority. He is white and heterosexual. He does not have dyslexia, tracking disorders or ADHD. He probably puts C of E on forms that ask about religion. He is the only child of a single parent family. His father was killed in an RTA when he was a toddler. Robert went to one of the local comprehensives. It is not a sink comprehensive but it is not good. They rarely get anyone into Oxbridge. They supported Robert as best they could. He got 4 A*s, 5 As and a B at GCSE. He went on to do Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology for AS level and got 3 As and a B. He was offered 2 As and a B to get into medical school (probably a slightly lower offer than he would have got had he been at a private school). He got an A and 2 Bs. By his own admission, he “cocked up” the maths paper. So Robert is not going to medical school
Robert feels bitter about the EDMP programme. Do you blame him?
I hate all this so much. I hate the way that Cambridge University (and just wait for the others to follow) has just been castigated for saying that it is going to take only the brightest students, the students who have managed to get the new A* at “A” level. You do not solve the problems of poor state education by forcing the Universities to dumb down.
One of the students taken on in 2002 by King’s College Medical School under EMDP dumbing down was Virginia Jibowu. Virginia Jibowu has had problems whilst she has been a student. She has failed some exams. She feels she has been badly treated and subjected to racism. So she is going to sue King’s College.
A BLACK medical student who claims she was bullied by racists on her course is suing her college for more than £300,000.
Virginia Jibowu, 25, from South Lambeth, says that she was ostracised by white students in an "institutionally racist" environment at London's King's College medical school. She says that while the students she has accused of racism graduated, the college refused to investigate many of her complaints, deliberately failed her and tried to stop her re-sitting the course.
Ms Jibowu is suing the college, which is part of the University of London, at Central London County Court for harassment, race discrimination and victimisation.
In legal papers submitted to the court, she said: "All of the alleged racists are now practising as doctors in the NHS. This can only ingrain the problem of institutional racism within the medical practice." Ms Jibowu is demanding more than £300,000 for loss of earnings, aggravated damages and injury to health and feelings.
But if she fails to finally qualify from the course, she is expected to sue at the High Court for further compensation for the loss of her career, which could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
But there is another kind of racism. A form of racism that few dare mention. It’s called “playing the race card”. It happens in the NHS. It happens in the police force. It happens everywhere. In the NHS, there is a certain sort of poorly performing doctor who, if criticised, immediately instructs his lawyers to issue proceedings for racial discrimination. This phenomenon is just as bad as ordinary racism, but more difficult to write about. It is not politically correct to suggest it happens.
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2009/03/kings-college-medical-school-accused-of.html