Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assertions made last spring by Dr. Bernard D. Davis '32, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, 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" had the immediate ill-effect of cheapening blacks' hard won gains. Davis made it seem as if black students were receiving diplomas out of charity. Some patients became suspicious of black doctors and asked whites to treat them...
...considerable attention last spring when he suggested in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial that the Medical School acted irresponsibly in graduating a minority student who failed part I of the national medical board five times. In particular Davis criticized the "nationwide increase in admission of students with substandard academic qualifications...
...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's 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...
...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...