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...Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology. First in a letter to a prestigious medical journal and later in comments to the press, Davis has asserted that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number of minority students admitted with "substandard academic qualifications." Whether through Davis naivete or reporters' searching for the simplified or sensational (The Crimson ran this headline across the top of the front page: "Professor Assails Blacks' Performance"), Davis's message came out as a challenge of the competency of all minority students...
...there were 160 medical schools with 28,142 students and 5,747 graduates annually. Abraham Flexner, an educator, not a physician, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to study the situation. He recommended the closing or reorganization of all substandard proprietary schools. By 1930 there were only 76 schools with a total of 21,597 students and 4,565 graduates annually. Little significant expansion of medical schools occurred for the next 20 years, but the "Flexner revolution" helped make the U.S. the world leader in biomedical science and medical education. From 1901 through...
...recent article, Davis alleged that certain minority medical students with "substandard academic qualifications" have lowered standards at medical schools...
...these minority students are substandard," Alvin Poussaint, associate dean of student affairs said, referring to the 5 to 10 Harvard Med students who failed part I of last year's National Medical Boards, "then white students are also substandard, and we ought to close Harvard Medical School...
...done a disservice to the Medical School's admissions policies, to the University's affirmative action program and to all minority students. Determining what constitutes a good medical education and who deserves one has never been an easy task. But by claiming that some minority students at Harvard have "substandard academic qualifications" which will bring about a decline in the quality of the nation's health care program, Davis has distorted a complex issue involving all medical students and manufactured a racist charge that must be condemned...