Charles Johnson, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, passed away on December 14, 2021, at the age of 94. Dr. Johnson joined Duke in 1970 as the first Black faculty member in the School of Medicine and first Black physician on the faculty of Duke University.
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Who Inspired You to Go to Med School?
Editor’s Note: Medical school applications are up 18% compared to last year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. The spike is due at least in part to the many roles physicians have played during the pandemic. As noted by National Public Radio, admissions officers have started calling this the Fauci Effect(www.npr.org) because National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, M.D., and other physicians have inspired young people to pursue careers in medicine. Accordingly, we asked our new physician bloggers who inspired them to become doctors. Here is what they shared.
simple point is that as an asian-american, it is harder to get into college or graduate school than any other racial category. where data is available, it s consistently harder for an asian-american to get in. i used the example of medical school admissions where it was 50% easier to get into medical school as an asian-american compared to an african-american. so statistical data, there s no rationalization for racism. affirmative action is a system of legalized racism. it is a racial classification system that changes people s chances of admission to college or graduate school, and there s no justification for it. but for you understand the point that i m trying to make, which is to say that from the perspective of the admissions s office, they seek to assemble a diverse student body, and asians on the merits could dominate the class, they might not want to do that because that, therefore,