I agree that if a doctor is not good enough they should not be practicing but the point is that it does look like doctors that are capable are struggling to pass because of the way they look, sexual orientation or race.
That isn't how I've read anything in this thread at all. More focus is put into grammar and language in general than you could suggest should be, and people are failing because of that. There is no reason sexual orientation, race or the way they look would change the words on a paper.
What it sounds like is ethic minorities have worse general English grammar including those born in the UK.
Someone said this should not happen because they have access to the same education, to that I say, complete tosh.
I am not racist, or a bigot in any way, I grew up in London, many many of my friends at three different schools(middle/high/college) and then after that at uni were asian or black and many many asian kids who grew up here are first or second generation born here of immigrants. Their families often speak other languages at home, just because you are born in England doesn't make English your first language, many kids are taught their parents or grandparents language as children and learn English as a secondary language but are far far less exposed to English than your average white English kid until you start to reach school.
Many parents who immigrated have passable but not brilliant grammar, many speak somewhat broken English, the same way many languages order their words differently and so speak English the wrong way around so to speak and these things often get passed on as it becomes natural to learn to talk a certain way.
Why would grammar be such a big deal, who gets sued if someone puts a couple of words the wrong way around and a different medication or condition is essentially described, if someone uses the wrong word and a patient dies. If that incorrect grammar ends up on a form and results in a death, who gets the blame, who gets sued and how many millions does it cost in compensation.
Why did so many imported doctors in the past 50 years pass yet aren't passing today.... the culture of suing would explain why exams are becoming stricter and harsher on grammar.
Either way this, in the third link you put out
was a case of testing to find a result you wanted.
FIrst running the test to make them associate specific words with left and right, then reversing the test, but ignoring that they had just done the reverse. It's a completely ridiculous test to start with and proves nothing, if you take the same test over and over, say an IQ test and you saw the same numbers and generally the same question you might jump to the answer as you've seen it before but miss that the question had reversed the numbers so the answer was actually different.
That's before you get to the other video of actors with a script picking on the guy in a turban and calling it unconscious bias, not it's not, it's a bunch of actors being paid to show actual bias on purpose.
Then you get into this "four fold" worse for minorities but maybe I'm being blind, they rarely say what this four fold number is. They don't say anywhere there are 4 times as many white as non white people passing. Later on the bbc article says foreign trainee's are 14 times MORE LIKELY TO FAIL.
This could mean that white uk trainee's are passing at 99.9% and foreign trainee's are passing at 98.6%.
What it's saying to me is most likely for every 1 white uk born person failing 4 non whites are failing and 14 foreign trainee's, but if that is 10 white people, 40 non white and 140 foreign out of the 5000 tested, it's not a sign of anything.
Surely if 20% of white people were failing and 80% of non white were failing.... they'd be saying that everywhere.
What it suggests is a very small amount of people are failing and it's being suggested that grammar plays a large part in that, considering many ethnic minorities ARE passing, and that only a few aren't, that they are much more likely to come from families where English isn't used much at home and simply that their English grammar is worse?
It all comes across as an agenda, when racism isn't a problem, create unconscious racism/bias, which is tested for in a completely unfair, pointed and intentionally misleading way.... yay for equality.
