Premed Advisor Racism: You're Too Black To Become a Doctor!

We talk about the lack of diversity in medicine. Why is this so problematic? These incidents? Because if it wasn't for the phone calls I made to my parents, if it wasn't for the fact that I am a very, very angry person who doesn't like being told what to do or what not to do, maybe I would have been the statistic that many students of color are, who are told, Hey, you aren't capable. You aren't competent. Get out of this field. And they change majors. They change pursuits. They lower their expectations, their standards of themselves. And they can't. They say I can't be a doctor. And I'm telling you, I have a lot of people. Students come shadow me.

A lot of students who email me and say, yeah, you know, I've always thought I could only be a nurse. And I'm not saying nurses. And it was a great career. But people say, I can only be a nurse. I can only be a tech. I can only be right. Because they think that a doctor is outside their reach. We've got to counteract these moments. And one of the things that we continue to talk about, and this is right, this, this need to change these things. And yes, we like, I always push. I always push, changing yourself. Like I changed myself. I couldn't change her, changing myself, but I hope that by me going back and hurt me, giving her that letter, that it would change how she would handle it, a future student. But what I think universities have to do a better job. It's almost like, and this is going to be a weird comment, guys. This is a weird comment, please don't send me hate mail saying that, that I was promoting pedophilia.

And I was comparing a premed advisors to pedophiles. But if you are a pedophile, right, you're a sex offender. You have to register as a sex offender, right. And you have to be screened. And for certain positions, they always check criminal background checks for, Hey, can you work around kids? Are you safe around kids? Are you competent? Or can we trust you? I think they should put in training, cultural competence training for people who are going to be in authority positions for students.

So all these counselors, they should know more than just what's offered in the registrar and the, and what class needed to take. They should be trained in how to manage conflict, how to deal with their biases, how to deal with people from different cultural backgrounds. And we should screen them and test them and evaluate them on those bases. Not just on how they evaluate students' curriculum.

How are you evaluating the student? How are you treating the students as people, as individuals and based on their cultural need? How are you meeting them where they are? Does that make sense to everybody? I know that was, I was trying to say like, essentially we need to have some things in place where we can account for that because it's devastating for people early in their career when they're just trying to find themselves and we all experienced whatever color you are, the transition to college shoot. It's a whole new world. And so we have to recognize that we need to make sure we put people in place who are competent, who are capable, who are willing, who want to understand specifically what the student's going for going through and meet them there and support them.

Because the way I've always looked at this and when I go out and I do educator trainings right now, I go teach counseling departments about the premed process. Or I go teach educators and learning centers about effective learning. Right? One of the things I've always tried to address is where a student is right now is not where they are for forever. And what I want all of us when I'm talking to educators, I want, all of you guys to understand is when you're doing with a student, you are never allowed to tell them what they can't become. Because these people are looking to you as someone who's knowledgeable someone's experience to guide them. It's not for you to label it. Your job is to facilitate them getting to where they need to be. Not labeling them as not being where they need to be. We have to flip that process. Does everybody see what I'm saying right there?

We've got to turn that around. It's not about labels. It's not about saying, Hey, you're dumb. You're in capable. You're disorganized. You don't have this curriculars. You don't have the research. You don't have no, that's not your job to label what your job to do is to get me there. That's where your focus needs to be.

And it's one of the reasons like I'm, I'm, I'm always super down on forums and different kinds of things because people think, Oh, if I send this person to DM or I send this person, I messaged her. I posted my thing on the forum. I'm going to get real meaningful feedback. And I'll give you an example. There's this guy.

I forget what his name is. He was like an English major. And I think he went a medical school. I don't know. I can't remember, but this guy posted on Twitter. Hey, all students of color, send me your personal statements for medical school. I'll read them for free. And people were all excited. That's all it's shared all over my timeline. Oh my gosh, this guy's doing such an amazing thing to help all these students. What's the problem with that. If you've got on Twitter, let's assume he's an expert. I don't know if he is or not. As soon as he's an expert. And he says, listen, every student of color, who's applying to medical school, send me your personal statement.

I'll read it for free and review for free. What's the problem with that? I agree. One tall girl, right? Some doctors would be more blunt, more racist and premed advisors. We're going to talk about this and doctors make awful premed advisors. Why? Because they're too far removed from the, and they're not invested in that's the reality. What's the problem with a guy on Twitter who were going to say, as an expert, he may not be who says all students of color, send me personal statements. I'll read them for free. Let's assume he's an expert. For example, if I said, Hey guys, everyone on here right now, all of you guys that are on here right now, I want all of you to send me personal statements. I'll read them for free.

What's the problem. There we go. Shannon. Got it. Boom. If I'm one person and I tell a hundred people to send me the personal statement, I'm going to review them. How can I read at a good depth level and edit and revise and give real meaningful feedback on all those hundred personal statements? So what ends up happening? You get a dilute evaluation.

You get meaningless, empty, superficial feedback, right? I'm a, I'm a paid advisor. People pay me to read the personal statements and applications. I can have as many things as I want. I do 10 individual applications a year 10. Why? Because each one of these students gets my full attention A to Z. Does everybody understand what I'm saying?

My bootcamp, right? How many students? My application bootcamp, a hundred students, my individual coaching, 10 students, because I need to make sure that everyone is at this level. It's my job to get you from here to here. Not my job is that your personal statement sucks. Go fix it right more personally. You know what? Uh, tell, tell me more about this part of your life. No, I'm going to have real meaningful editing. Does everybody understand? I know that was off topic, but I just like, let's think about this. Like we have to make sure that we're paying attention. Guys. Pay attention, pay attention. Yes. We got to pay attention.

Oh, we just got on the topic. It's about doctors. No doctors would be horrible people to evaluate you and to be mentor. Like, they're good for mentorship, but they're not good for advisors. They're far away from the process. They are not actually experts in the process. Even though they are doctors because they don't study the process. You're only experts in what you're studying and they don't have time to develop into devote to actually giving you quality advice and to knowing and being current and all the advice.

Right. So Brian asks me if I'm still working in a hospital. Yeah, I work I'm at UCFD, but I only work part time as an anesthesiologist and what I were part time, because I made the conscious choice that it takes real commitment to work with students. And so if I'm working 70 hours a week in the hospital, how can I make sure that I'm available to my students?

How can I make sure that I'm up on the latest, I've gonna make sure that I'm bringing you guys have value stuff. Just saying the thought process. So anyway, Are these talks, helping people? Are you guys getting feeling a sense of commune, right? And that we are all people. And I think it's so important. The issue, I keep saying this people keep trying to politicize this it's Republicans.

It's Democrats. It's uh, it's it's this person versus that person. It's right. It's what's your belief system. It's about, are you a human? And the question becomes, do you want to care for people? Do you want to love people? And I keep saying like, our society is so fractured and so jacked up and so bad people are so miserable.

Why are people more miserable? Now? We've got everything to disposal. Why are people so miserable? Because we have dating apps because we have social media likes. We need more real love in the world and real kindness and real gestures. Have you guys seen the people out here pretending to do stuff? Did you guys see the girl with the drill who pertaining to board up the shop, but really just pulled up her car, take the picture of the drill, got back in the car and drove off. You see these interim influencers who are popping in front of protests. Pretend like they're part of the protest and it dipping right out. We need to stop the fake. And we need to start leading with love, leading with our heart and caring for people.

Just love people, man, people are different. We're all different people will have early about how difficult it is to be a Sikh guys. It is, it's difficult to be a woman. It's difficult to be of any backgrounds that it will be white. It's still going to be everything. I think that's, I guess the other argument was like, Oh, you're saying black lives matter. Like it's so hard on black people. It's hard to white people. It is hard. Everybody lives as far. So what we need to do was understand that people are different than us. People look different, but at the core of us, we just want love y'all. So let's love more. Let's treat people kindly, right? With respect, with dignity, we all deserve dignity. I think that's a real good word. Dignity. We want to treat patients with dignity. I all my patients, right? And I got patients that are in a gown. Their nuts are hanging out, right? It's uncomfortable. You're a grown man. I got another girl, man in here and your nuts are hanging out.

It's uncomfortable for you. I treat you with dignity. I'm covering your nuts up. I'm not gonna look at your nuts. I'm not gonna point out how your nuts are hanging out, covering that stuff, using dignity, right? Dignity, treat people with dignity, with respect the way you want to be treated. I'm glad that I fired you up.

Humble servant. Alright. It is hard to be a black woman in the medical field and we're going to have another conversation. And I know it's gonna be very unpopular. I already know it. I already know it, but we're going to have a talk because if you guys saw the Democrats right with their African garb on pandering, pandering to the black population, right? With our Afra Garba, we're going to have a discussion and it's going to be uncomfortable. And I'm having someone on who is of African descent. And I always make the comment. People call me African American. I'm like, I'm not, African-American not at all, but what you're African American. I know I'm African American at all.

I'm black American, not African American, you know, African about this. And I say that because it's important to delineate. Then when people see me, they see my black skin. They judge me on that. So I am black, but I am not African. And I won't let people use that term with me to make me less American than they are. And we're going to have discussion about African versus black American, because that's also an important distinction. And we're going to talk about that because, because there are different factors involved and the person I'm having on, we're going to, I think it's going to be two weeks or three weeks from now because now, right?

So starting next week, I'm sort of having a major figure. Who's a black, right? It was a black person or a person who is in a diversity office coming on to talk about diversity in medicine, higher education with us and this person, we had a great discussion about this versus a Dean of diversity at a medical school. And the discussion we had was centered on the difference in acceptance rates and attendance rates and the diversity of medicine. And it's African versus American black, and it's different. And it's two different pathways. And then the research of understanding the supply, what, how that transmits through higher education, whether you are African or whether you are black American, it's different. So we're going to talk about that too. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So discrimination in a medical application. Yeah. Uh, that's definitely something that we get to talk about because we're going to get there. Oh, we're gonna get there.

Cause right. So would you say college? So what's after college medical schools, I was thinking about medical, uh, discrimination. And I got some wonderful stories throughout which one we'll focus on this time. Um, Yeah. So Gina just hit the nail on the head. So Andreas asked this question, he, Dr. Pinesett why might someone might, why might someone prefer to be black over African-American? Uh, is there a major fact that delineates, the two I'll get into this briefly, I feel like African-American is political, political politicized to put the African upfront, to make people who are black, feel less American because we don't call white Americans, Euro, European Americans, or Euro Americans.

We call them Caucasian, but where's KA where's cos we're Caucasian. And so the point is, is that white? Right? We refer to them as white as in, they are American. They are America. And when we don't recognize that everyone is an immigrant to America, at some point in their history. And the difference between being African American and being black is that the African trajectory.

So people who write a lot of Nigerians, right? Why don't you got that pathway and that experience and that cultural background is entirely different than the American black entirely different. And so for me, I think it's important because, and I guess we'll kind of tease. This is that American blacks don't get into medical school, look around, look at all.

And I'm just, this is just, this is the facts guys. The reality look at SNMA leadership board. Look at the math leadership board. They're African blacks. They're not American blacks difference. And American blacks don't get into medical school. And so what's really happening is, is, and this is, again, this is the systemic racism is that people are bypassing the systemic racism by coming over at different points in their life.

Right. Because their parents and I said, why didn't you want to tell me right now? No, no, no. We'll save it for shadow. Well, you know, we'll talk about this tomorrow. We'll talk about it tomorrow. So tomorrow we're back at five o'clock and we'll talk about in addition to medical racism, because we're only got 50 minutes,

I'll talk about a medical racism and we'll talk about African versus American black. And it's a difference exactly, Ariana, yet. We're gonna talk about it, but I hope you guys are enjoying these videos. You guys are liking these. Make sure you guys take a second, like the video, take a second and comment. And I hope to see you guys all again tomorrow five o'clock thank you guys very much for joining me.

I hope that we are being, I'm trying to be as sensitive as I can, but as honest and real as I can guys, racism, discrimination, it's real. It's honest. It's truthful. It's there. We can overcome. We can get there, but it starts with understanding. It's gonna be hard to change outside things, get charged hard to change entire systems. We first got to change ourselves. And then through that, use that to educate, inform, to modify and to change the world. And the reason I became a doctor guys and for people to see my personal statement, like if you're my application, course, you see my personal statement. I wrote it in there. It's like the reason we a doctor is not to treat patients.

There's three reasons. Only one of them is treat patients. The other two. It's about empowering. It's about being a beacon and showing students of color, showing students who struggle academically, showing students who need help. You can do it, baby. Look at me. You may be average, but you can do it. So come on and get some of it.

Like I like that was like my, my big beam Jaguar to medical school, right? I just want to power. Like I love working with students, right? So I want young people to understand. Look, when you see me G you can be this, but let me show you too. Right? And I bring people along. That's what the website's all about.

Right? Studenttransformation, my website, thestudydoc.com. Why? Because wherever you're at, I'm going to help you get to that next level. That's what I'm trying to do. And so with these videos, what I want, you guys understand whatever you're going through. I want you to look at me and say, you know what? He went through the same discrimination.

He had the same doubts about himself. He felt down on himself. He let people hurt his feelings. And then he said to himself, wait a minute. If I let their hurtful words hurt me and stop me and hold me down, all I'm doing is making them right. And then I'm going to have to see them smile when I fail and prove them.

Right? And he used that as fuel to do the right things, to be successful. And he said that his greatness could not be denied. And looking at me, he said, that's what I want you guys to understand and see is that this is real guys. People try to hold you down. And what you have to do is that you have to understand that.

And that's real. And it's there. And there are walls, the glass ceiling, but greatness knows no glass ceiling y'all greatness knows no glass ceiling. We dominate right through the glass ceiling. We pop that thing, right? The freak off what? Glass ceiling? I didn't see it walked right through it. Be that greatness. Y'all that's the point of these videos is that every every level there are obstacles. There are issues. There are problems, but we will overcome. Yes, yes. Y'all. We can get with it. We understand. And I want you guys it's incumbent upon all of you. I'm one person it's incumbent upon all of you to stand up. And when you see somebody struggling, you, they don't look like you.

If they're of another ethnicity, if they're of another cultural background, if they're in a different class, it's, whatever's happening. It's up to you to stand up, lead with your heart and say, no, I'm with you. I see you going through something. Come on, I'll lift you up. Let's go up. That's your responsible. That's what I charge you guys with.

Right? I want you to leave you guys with some kind of action. That's your action. When you see something wrong, fix it. When you see someone hurt, heal them. That's what I charge you guys with. We used to somebody being hated on you. Love them. Love them. People trip. I'm a big hugger. Like why are you always hugging people?

I held waitresses. Jennifer freaks out. I mean, I help people. Why? Because I felt people need more hugs than electricity. Love, man. I want people know that. Yeah. You love. If you've never got the help before you here's a hug right now. I love you. Somebody like there's there's, there's, there's love in my heart for you.

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