January 28, 2019
A response to the American Psychological Association's recent guidance for men and boys.
March 16, 2012
A medical school in Austria will grade its applicants by gender with the results weighed toward women, reports the Associated Press.
October 26, 2011
Yale's med school is jumping aboard the bandwagon for increasing diversity in its student body, aiming to include more LGBT students. I can't see how aiming at quotas (or "goals" or some oth...
February 22, 2011
Dr. Paul Hsieh writes here about medical ethics, medical schools, and dishonesty.
August 2, 2010
Medical school admissions people apparently think that medical training has been going too much toward students with demonstrated aptitude in science and the nation would be better served if more me...
December 11, 2009
The mania over "diversity" (that is, preferences for certain people whose ancestry puts them into an "underrepresented" category) has swept through most of American higher education. It's bad en...
November 18, 2009
Theodore Dalrymple comments in the Telegraph on a government requirement that new nurses in the UK will have to hold a degree-level qualification beginning in 2013. Dalrymple sees no intrinsic reaso...
October 13, 2009
The remarks below were sent in from Dr. Jeremiah Reedy, who serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars and was the founding president of the Minnesota Association...
September 11, 2008
Does diversity in the medical classroom enhance students' ability to care for minority patients? A new study supposedly provides evidence to that effect. But the survey omits some essential elemen...
