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Medical school wokeness is threatening Canada’s precarious Jenga tower of health care
Buckle up, patients, it’s going to be a bumpy ride as a new cohort of doctors replaces the old
Canadians horrified by Aaron Sibarium’s account last month in The Washington Free Beacon disclosing shocking revelations about trainee doctors’ incompetence at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) should not lean away in ambivalence, nor imagine that Canada is by any stretch of the imagination immunized from the self-same malaise, one that casts a grim shadow across our nation’s health-care horizon.
In that explosive report, whistleblowers spotlighted racially biased admissions at UCLA’s medical school, coupled with ballooning lacunae in junior doctors’ general knowledge of medicine. “I have students on their rotation who don’t know anything,” was one of the standout comments from one professor on the UCLA admissions committee. When I read that a student incapable of locating a major artery berated their mentor, it came as no surprise whatsoever. But surprise or not, the realization that failure rates in routine medical competency examinations have skyrocketed — up tenfold in some benchmark areas such as Family Medicine — is far more emblematic of an impending crisis. Buckle up, patients, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
