Half of trainee doctors at UCLA's prestigious medical school 'are failing basic tests after dean who's anti-white ignored affirmative action ban and terrorized staff with DEI rules'

A DEI-fixated dean at UCLA's world-famous medical school has allowed standards to plummet by discriminating against white and Asian applicants, it is claimed. 

The David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles boasts Nobel Prize winners on its faculty and accepts just 173 students out of the 14,000 who apply to it each year.

But it has plunged from sixth to 18th place in the rankings since the appointment of Jennifer Lucerno as dean of admissions in June 2020 amid claims that the admissions bar for underrepresented minorities is now 'as low as you could possibly imagine'.

'All the normal criteria for getting into medical school only apply to people of certain races,' an admissions officer told the Washington Free Beacon. Lucerno has been accused of flouting California's affirmative action ban and hindering the career of a highly-qualified doctor because he is a white man. 

'For other people, those criteria are completely disregarded.' Among the disturbing anecdotes shared are of a student lashing out in an operating room and accusing a surgeon of picking on her after being asked to locate a major artery - a basic medical request. 

UCLA Medical school dean Jennifer Lucerno has been accused of over a collapse in standards since her appointment in 2020 amid allegations of affirmative action 

Lucerno, pictured left, is described as someone who 'participates actively in the recruitment of underrepresented students to the profession of medicine'

The number of students failing tests on basic medical knowledge has increased 10-fold in some subjects since 2020, the Free Beacon reported.

And a majority of students are now flunking standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics among some cohorts.

The collapse in standards has turned the institution into a 'failed medical school' according to one former member of the admissions staff.

Admitting students on racial criteria has been banned in California since 1996 and outlawed federally since a Supreme Court ruling last year.

But faculty at the school said that Lucerno has ignored bans on affirmative action and allegedly told colleagues she wanted a highly qualified white male candidate pushed down the residency rank list because 'we have too many of his kind'.

Business was suspended for the day in 2021 when a Native American applicant was rejected and a furious Lucero made committee members sit through a two-hour lecture on indigenous history delivered by her own sister.

She is accused of stuffing the 25-strong admissions committee with her hand-picked members and terrorizing dissenters into silence by implying they are racist and threatening them with diversity training sessions.

'We were always outnumbered,' an admissions officer told the website.

'Other people would get upset when we brought up GPA.'

First-year students were required to sit through a lecture by Hamas-supporting homeless campaigner Lisa Gray-Garcia who demanded students kneel and pray to 'mama Earth'.

Gray-Garcia slammed Israel just hours after Hamas killed 1,200 people on October 7 expressed support for Palestine, but none for the murdered Israelis

Two members recalled Lucero becoming incensed at an admissions meeting in November 2021 when members voiced doubts about a black candidate with grades way below the usual standard

'Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?' she raged.

'We need people like this in the medical school.'

Her arrival in June 2020 - shortly after the murder of George Floyd - coincided with an overhaul of the school's curriculum which cut pre-clinical training from two years to one, to free up time for 'community service'.

Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin sparked a huge surge in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, with Lucerno this week being held up as an example of the ideaology going very wrong. 

Now students spend seven hours a week on 'Foundations of Practice' which includes modules on 'interpersonal communication skills', described by one student as 'telling us how to be a good person'.

They are also required to spend at least three hours of fortnight in a class on 'Structural Racism and Health Equity'.

That has featured lectures from a Hamas-supporting homeless campaigner who demanded students kneel with her on the floor and pray to 'mama Earth'.

Lisa Gray-Garcia led students in a chant of 'Free, Free Palestine' during her two-hour presentation in March, to the visible discomfort of Jewish students.

She later posted an account of the class on her social media pages in which she denounced the 'myth of clean', and what she described as 'HELLthcare'.

Another compulsory part of the curriculum is now an essay by self-proclaimed 'fat liberationist' Marquisele Mercedes, who claims that 'fatphobia is medicine's status quo' and that weight loss is a 'hopeless endeavor'.

All first year medical students at UCLA are required to read an essay by Marquisele Mercedes (pictured), a self-proclaimed 'fat liberationist' who claims that 'fatphobia is medicine's status quo' and that weight loss is a 'hopeless endeavor'

Mercedes has also led presentations on how does 'anti-fatness show up in the work you do' - which she says includes using 'fear-mongering language in order to encourage healthy eating and physical activity'

Jeffrey Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world's foremost experts on obesity, said the course amounted to malpractice and promoted 'extensive and dangerous misinformation'.

'This is a profoundly misguided view of obesity, a complex medical disorder with major adverse health consequences for all racial and ethnic groups,' he added.

Lucero's tenure has coincided with an exodus of Asian students whose numbers fell by almost a third between 2019 and 2022.

And the students that remain have become increasingly entitled about their ignorance with one professor reporting that he was berated by a student in the operating room who accused him of putting her on the spot when she could not identify a major artery.

Jeffrey Flier(pictured), the former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world's foremost experts on obesity, slammed the course and said the curriculum 'promotes extensive and dangerous misinformation'

'I don't know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,' a colleague said.

'Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.

'UCLA still produces some very good graduates,' another added.

'But a third to a half of the medical school is incredibly unqualified.'

Lucero also serves as Vice Chair of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the school's anesthesia department where she has resisted efforts to withhold racial identities from admission committees insisting 'we are not required to blind any information'.

The university's discrimination prevention office has received several complaints about her conduct in the last year but concluded that none merit an investigation.

The school's structural racism class is under review and experts warned the Beacon that the university was leaving itself open to a legal challenge.

Adam Mortara was a lead trial lawyer in the Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard case which saw the Supreme Court outlaw affirmative action last year.

'You can't have evidence of overt discrimination like this and not have someone come forward,' he told the website.

And dissent is starting is starting to make itself felt with faculty members warning that the reputation of the institution itself is now on the line.

'This has been a colossal failure,' one professor wrote on a forum last month.

'The new curriculum is not working and the students are grossly unprepared for clinical rotations.'

The school has slipped from sixth 18th place in the rankings since Lucero's appointment

'The faculty I work with have noticed a dramatic decrease in the knowledge of the medical students.'

Another noted the fear of how patients would fare at the hands of their underqualified students.

'We have asked for metrics on how these folks actually do,' one admissions officer said.

'None of that is ever divulged to us.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to the medical school for comment.