Sunday, August 16, 2020

I support affirmative action. I support holistic review. I do not support holistic review used to achieve affirmative action.

The world of medicine has been roiled recently by an article published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.  The author, Dr. Norman Wang, MD (since fired from his job as an cardiac electrophysiology fellowship program director) argued against affirmative action in medicine, believing that individuals with "weaker" academic credentials shouldn't be accepted into medicine programs.  It was subsequently condemned as racist and retracted.