Posted on 12/12/2023 8:46:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There is a major controversy brewing in Canada over a proposal in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons that schools shift from emphasizing “medical expertise” in favor of teaching “anti-racism” and social justice values.
An organization of physicians called Do No Harm is opposing the recommendation of the interim report by the college’s Anti-Racism Expert Working Group.
The report states that the new emphasis should center around “values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism, and social justice, rather than medical expertise.”
By “de-centering medical expertise,” the anti-racism experts suggest courses focusing on “anti-racism,” “anti-oppression,” “social justice and equity,” “inclusive compassion,” and “decolonization.”
That includes the perils of capitalism and other “power structures”:
“Anti-racism is deeply rooted in anti-oppression, which analyzes the world through the lens of power, including the historical and ongoing structures of racism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and more. Anti-racism and antioppression call for action on the manifestations of oppression based on race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, immigration status and more. “
In a separate report, the group has also opposed U.S. medical schools filtering out applicants who opposed DEI values.
The group states that it found that “the admissions process at 50 of the top-ranked medical schools found that 36 asked applicants their views on, or experience in, DEI efforts” to “screen out dissenters.”
Most U.S. medical schools currently have some DEI and diversity courses incorporated into their curriculums. Some now give an alternative hippocratic oath pledging social justice and anti-racist action.
It is not clear how much of the traditional curriculum would be displaced under the recommendation in Canada.
With a kid in his first-year of medical school at Georgetown, I am amazed at the overwhelming burden on these students in taking these medical courses. The first year curriculum seems an all-consuming effort to cover the basic medical jargon, training, and science. I cannot imagine shoe-horning other subjects into that dense coverage or what would be jettisoned to make room for the new emphasis.
“Racial Equality Initiatives which fundamentally discriminate against whites will set your broken bones, cure your diseases, and treat your cancers! Canute commands it!”
We have teachers to do the SJW stuff. It’s hard enough already to find a doctor who is worth a damn without med schools downplaying medical expertise. I’ll bet this makes malpractice lawyers salivate.
Royal College, stay in your lane!
Someone else can translate that into Qubeccors French.
oh the joys of socialized medicine... can the AMA be far behind
<< By “de-centering medical expertise,” >>
Reads like The Bee. Having expertise in anything useful is just too damn white and triggering in this DEI-dominated culture. It must all be “de-centered.”
Two plus two equals FIVE or you will never graduate!
And, of course, the tried and true: What do you call the person who graduates last from the Social Justice Medical School? Yes, doctor.
Come to think of it, in my life, when one of my great, long term Primary Care Physician (PCP) has retired, I would access the choices I had for my new doctor, and there was the CV, with most of their education. I often look for a PCP who leans toward sports medicine, as they are less inclined to push medications all the time.
Come to think of it, if I ever am in that position again, I will stay the heck away from any medical staff that announce their pronouns. I am interested in the PRO-fessional, not the woke pronoun insanity.
Something tells me they already are.
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DEI/ESG, guaranteed to destroy or ruin everything it touches.
Just like the woke rats. Cut from the same slimy cloth.
Isn’t that the plan?
They are already advancing DEI in medical education.
Soon we’ll end up with groups like the one I saw today
When he stepped into the exam room I was in he was wearing safety goggles, N-95 mask and gloves up to his elbows. He never once got close enough to actually examine me. He had the nurse run tests for flu, covid and rsv. An hour later the nurse announces a finding of bronchitis..
That doctor, a complete tool, is what the future holds for us.
Sure, because actual science is so white supremacist.
We can’t actually have medical doctors know what they are talking about these days, now can we?
If the major “treatment” on offer is medically assisted suicide, which is going to be based on identity, how much real medical knowledge or training do these Woke doctors need ?
“If the major “treatment” on offer is medically assisted suicide, which is going to be based on identity, how much real medical knowledge or training do these Woke doctors need?”
Probably just enough to know what bottle of government-approved killing juice to use and where to stick the needle. After that, it’s just filling out the paperwork…
dumbing down doctors so more white people die sooner, hopefully before birthing
a replacement white.
ROTFL! Friggin’ looney tune hosers. I thought this was Babylon Bee. Never would have guessed Jonathan Turley.
The Left ruins EVERYTHING.
Flappin’ your big lips and crying racism is a lot easier and less risky than curing someone from a deadly disease. Shootin’ off your big racist mouth and calling everyone else “racists” while screaming for genocide of the Jews is what Communist “colleges and universities” are all about.
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