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- From: tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey)
- Subject: Re: Women Doctors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.185807.7312@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:58:07 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec29.192625.1945@speedy.aero.org> <92361.102433MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1hqeogINN7a2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1hqeogINN7a2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an725@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul L. Fortman, Jr.) writes:
- >
- >I also agree with,
- >in general, that only the best or most motivated or with the best endurance
- >survive med school (male dominated), although I would think this to be the
- >case with all women doctors, not just specialists.
-
- I think this is pure speculation. You seem to be implying that there is
- a higher failure rate for female medical students than for male medical
- students. I really doubt that this is the case.
-
- Can you back it up?
-
- By the way, nearly 50% of accepted med school applicants in US medical
- schools are women. Men still dominate the applicant pool, so women are
- accepted at a higher rate than men. It would be interesting to compare
- the GPAs, MCATs, etc., of accepted applicants by gender, to see if
- we find that women are discriminated against. Does anyone else think
- that it is more likely that female gender is an advantage to gaining
- acceptance to medical school, than a disadvantage? (I don't think
- that this is necessarily bad, in case anyone cares. Viva diversity!)
-
- I don't doubt that the med school faculties still contain a preponderence
- of men, but this will change over the next few decades. (and yes, that
- _is_ pure speculation on my part.)
-
- Tom
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