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Nearly half of all students at UCLA’s medical school, known as one of the best in the world, fail basic tests of medical competence, a new report has revealed. Many are attributing the school’s fall from grace to its agressive acceptance of less-qualified minority candidates.

The report, released today by the Washington Free Beacon, stated that the rates of failure on “shelf” exams (standardized tests that cover a number of issues including emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and other specializations), have increased tenfold at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine since 2022.

In some of the cohorts admitted since then, more than 50% of students have failed some of the shelf exams. This is despite the fact that nationally, only 5% of students fail.


A number of professors, members of staff, and members of the admissions committee, spoke anonymously with the Free Beacon. One professor told the outlet that a student failed to identify a major artery, and then shouted at them for even asking them the question to begin with. Another claimed that students at the end of their medical rotation couldn’t even comprehend basic lab tests, or present patients.

“I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,” the professor said. “Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.”

The blame for the failures has been attributed to the arrival of Jennifer Lucero as the Dean of Admissions in 2020. Lucero allegedly prioritized the admission Black and Latino admissions over white and Asian applicants, rather than basing acceptance on competency. This practice has been occurring even though California has explicitly banned public schools from considering race on admissions since 1996.

According to at least six members of staff that spoke to the Free Beacon, Lucero attacked anyone who questioned the qualifications or grades of minority candidates, and claimed that anyone doing so was racist.

In a notable incident in 2021, Lucero exploded at an admissions officer who voiced concern over the qualifications of a Black applicant.

“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” she reportedly snapped. “We need people like this in the medical school.”

One Native American applicant was rejected in 2021, the sources claimed, which then resulted in a two hour lecture by Lucero’s own sister to the admissions board, instead of vetting any more potential candidates.

According to two sources present at a February 2022 meeting, Lucero argued that a highly qualified white man should be bumped down multiple spots on the admission list because “we have too many of his kind,” in favor of a Hispanic applicant who had “performed poorly” on her anesthesiology rotation in medical school.

One former member of the admissions staff said that such admissions had resulted in UCLA becoming a “failed medical school,” adding: “We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it.”

Since 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in the US News and World Report’s rankings for medical research. Ironically, the number of Asian applicants fell by almost a third from 2019 to 2022, with no other California school seeing such a decline.

In 2020, the entire university condensed its preclinical curriculum from two years to one, in order to “add more time for research and community service,” according to the report, a decision that allegedly compounded the already problematic admissions issues. First year students must now spend between three to four hours every two weeks studying “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” covering topics such as “fatphobia,” along with seven hours a week in another class that includes units on “interpersonal communication skills.”

In April, one professor claimed that the new curriculum was a “colossal failure,” arguing that it rendered the students “grossly unprepared for clinical rotations.”
 
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:doh Soviet Russia was known for its lack of humor.


Funny Texas highway signs will soon be banned under new federal rules. Here's why.
Hannah Ortega
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Goodbye, "Only Rudolph should drive lit."
Rest in peace, "Horns up, phones down."
Farewell, "Mama say buckle up Bobby Boucher."

All these humorous Texas highway signs are going away because of new rules from the Federal Highway Administration.

Funny highways signs to be banned in 2026, but safety is still first

The changes are outlined in a manual the administration released in December, which states that "overhead electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny will be banned in 2026 because they can be misunderstood or distracting to drivers," The Associated Press reported.

The administration said signs must be simple, brief and clear and must pertain only to road conditions such as upcoming traffic, crashes or weather, as well as reminders about seat belts, speeding and impaired driving.

"Our message board signs along Texas highways are a great tool to show important safety information to drivers," Adam Hammons, media relations director for the Texas Department of Transportation, said in a statement. "Every message we post includes a safety component and we will continue to do that.
'Hocus pocus, drive with focus' — New Jersey
Texas is not the only affected state. Arizona, Ohio, New Jersey and more have displayed their fair share of funny highway signs and must now conform to the new rules.

The Associated Press reported that, in the past, Arizona posted, "Hands on your wheel, not your meal"; an Ohio sign said, "Don't drive Star Spangled Hammered"; and New Jersey posted, "Hocus pocus, drive with focus."

More:TxDOT shares messages from 'The Waterboy' for Mother's Day

More silly messages seen on Texas highways
Other humorous Texas signs include:
  • "You're not a candle, don't drive lit."
  • "Feast your eyes on the road. Drive safely."
  • "Gobble gobble, go easy on the throttle."
  • "Be safe, drive smart, love mama."
  • "The eyes of TX are upon you, buckle up."
 
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Why is the Federal Government wasting time with this? Wait, never the fuck mind.
 
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This is why I think people will vote Trump. We can talk about all the other bullshit with him but in the end, people want the first 3.5 years of Trump's presidency and economy back. Another 4 years of what Biden is doing just means another 4 years of trying to survive for the majority of Americans.
 
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Cowboysrock55 said:
This is why I think people will vote Trump. We can talk about all the other bullshit with him but in the end, people want the first 3.5 years of Trump's presidency and economy back. Another 4 years of what Biden is doing just means another 4 years of trying to survive for the majority of Americans.
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I will end up right there. There is no alternative. There is no way I want for shit to go South and Kamala is in charge. Fuck that.
 
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boozeman said:
I have no idea how we can restore decency in this society when we have people living in it that are down to this low level of intellect and lack of fucking responsibility.
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We can't. Honestly feels like smartphones were the final nail in any course correction. Young people I work with will walk 300 feet staring at the fucking thing. No one has the attention span to read a fucking book.
 
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Thorn said:
We can't. Honestly feels like smartphones were the final nail in any course correction. Young people I work with will walk 300 feet staring at the fucking thing. No one has the attention span to read a fucking book.
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Thank you for this post.

This complete homo makes more sense than anyone. What in the hell people?
 
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