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Study finds medical students disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds

www.mprnews.org Study finds medical students disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds

A new study conducted by medical school students and faculty at the University of Minnesota found that medical students of all racial backgrounds disproportionately come from affluent backgrounds. The study raises questions about the importance of socioeconomic diversity and the potential impact on ...

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holy shit what a waste of time, who authorized this shit
- These studies, although obvious, are necessary because it's the first step in figuring out where the best places to target are in order to change it. It's basically breaking it down into smaller parts so that people can fix it.
  
  did we need this study to know its one of the most expensive educations you can get and that only the wealthy can afford ? quit yo shit fool
  
  Limited budgets require you to do this rather than throw mud at the fan and hope for progress. It is how the process works and journalism like this never does it justice. What this headline says should actually be "we are terrible gatekeepers, so how can we, as medicine, help fix it." This is not for the capital owner side. This is for equity and accessibility.
  
  Yes. There’s what you know and then there’s what you can prove. This provides the latter.
  
  Makes a dumb statement
  Has his argument soundly and politely shut down
  Doubles down on dumb
  🎵 It's a tale as old as time 🎵
  
  Eh, I can understand the anger, but it's inherently reactionary and comes from ignorance rather than a bad place. Science likes to put up a nice facade of how it works. A lot of ECRs, myself included, go into a bit of shock at first during a PhD. It's a lot of drudgery, data sorting, and paperwork. My field isn't medicine but the skillset for reading into pop science and terrible admin written press releases from unis is cross-disciplinary haha.
  
  Seems like a good read on the situation.You seem like a very nice person (zero sarcasm intended). I admire your patience, and I feel a bit ashamed of my original snarky comment directed at that guy
  
  I laughed, anyway. The devil still dances on my shoulder.

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