Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Update - DEI’s medical school infiltration is frightening.

According to a recent Speech First report, the nation’s leading medical schools are controlled by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion fanatics, who inflict beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through policies, forced statements, and curricular mandates.

Filed in the fall of 2024, “Critical Condition” analyzed public records from FOIA requests from 54 of the country’s top medical schools, and the results are alarming.

For example, the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School offers a “Developing Outstanding Clinical Skills” program that teaches students to embrace “weight inclusivity,” arguing that weight-loss strategies foster a “culture of shame.” Students are also instructed to avoid terms such as “overweight” or “obese.”

In a similar vein, the University of California, Los Angeles medical school offers a “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course that teaches students about “fatphobia,” which describes concerns about weight and body size as a form of discrimination or oppression. (You can almost picture a group of paunchy protesters, fists raised high, angrily shouting “Fat power!”)

The hypocrisy here is obvious. Excess weight or obesity increases the risk of death by anywhere from 22% to 91% and Black adults have the highest obesity rates of any race or ethnicity in the U.S. So, downplaying the effects of obesity could really be considered racist.

Duke Medical School has adopted race-based promotion guidelines that reward doctors for recruiting and mentoring “BIPOC faculty” and “targeting specific groups of people,” language attorneys say appear to violate civil rights law.

Brown University’s Medical School now prioritizes DEI over clinical skills in its promotion criteria for faculty. The standards include “demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion” as a “major criterion” for all positions within the Department of Medicine. Clinical skills, by contrast, only count as a “minor criterion” for many roles.

On April 23, President Trump issued an executive order stating, “A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law. This principle guarantees equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes. It promises that people are treated as individuals, not components of a particular race or group. It encourages meritocracy and a colorblind society, not race- or sex-based favoritism. Adherence to this principle is essential to creating opportunity, encouraging achievement, and sustaining the American Dream.”

While Trump has set the proper tone, the DEIists have changed their tactics. Like criminals trying to avoid capture, the university DEI perps use disguises and ruses to avoid being caught. DEI offices now use kinder and gentler monikers like “Student Success,” “Well-Being,” and “Access and Opportunity.”

A College Fix survey, which analyzed news reports, press releases, and institutional websites, found that at least 87 schools have undergone a rebranding process. While many universities did indeed close their DEI offices, many opted to rename or overhaul them, keeping most of the same staff and goals. In some cases, there were staff reassignments and other bureaucratic shuffling, such as integration into different departments. A few examples:

- The University of Oklahoma claimed it had closed its DEI office in April 2024, but it simply rebranded it as the Division of Access and Opportunity and reassigned the staff.

- The University of Louisville renamed its DEI department the Office of Institutional Equity. Nothing changed except the sign on the door.

- The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Colorado has been rechristened the “Office of Belonging and Engagement.”

- Similarly, Rice University restructured its DEI efforts by renaming its department the “Office of Access and Institutional Excellence.”

- American University in Washington, D.C., announced in May 2025 that it would transform its Center for Diversity & Inclusion into the Center for Student Belonging, focused on ensuring every student feels “seen, valued, and supported.”

(The full survey findings, including hyperlinks to source material, can be accessed on The College Fix’s tracking spreadsheet.)

Earlier this month, Mary Grabar, a fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, wrote about Hamilton College, a private liberal arts school in Clinton, New York. She explains that it operates business-as-usual with politicized courses and DEI programs under the deceptively named “Common Ground” program.

Grabar notes that students can take 71 courses in the Department of Africana Studies, along with black-themed classes in other departments, such as the History Department’s “Black Metropolis” and “Race, Gender and Empire in US,” and a DEI program led by Sean Bennett, the school’s vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Any attempt to rebrand DEI is like calling a stink bomb a rose. No matter what name you give it, it still stinks.

With quality education taking a backseat to a radical agenda, it’s hardly surprising that in the real world, a January survey found that 24% of hiring managers believe recent college graduates are unprepared for the workforce, 33% cite a lack of work ethic, and 29% see them as entitled.

Additionally, 27% believe recent graduates are easily offended, and 25% say they don’t respond well to feedback.

Americans need to be proactive. While Trump’s order is a positive move, DEI’s rebranding will make it harder to solve the problem.

Astonishing. I posted this back in 2020, and it appalls me just as much now to read this as it did back then:

"...On a related note, a lot of medical schools no longer subscribe to the Hippocratic Oath or have new MDs take it..."

Oh, how I wish that were true. If they trashed the old one and didn't require them to take an oath of any kind, it might be less damaging.

But the NEW oaths many are taking are disgusting:

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Class of 2024 Oath

As the entering class of 2020, we start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. We honor the 700,000+ lives lost to COVID-19, despite the sacrifices of health care workers.

We recognize the fundamental failings of our health care and political systems in serving vulnerable communities. This oath is the first step in our enduring commitment to repairing the injustices against those historically ignored and abused in medicine: Black patients, Indigenous patients, Patients of Color and all marginalized populations who have received substandard care as a result of their identity and limited resources.

Acknowledging the privilege and responsibility that come with being a physician, I take this oath as a call to action to fulfill my duty to patients, to the medical profession and to society.

Thereby, I pledge as a physician and lifelong student of medicine:

I will support and collaborate with my colleagues across disciplines and professions, while respecting the patient’s vital role on the health care team.

I will honor my physical, mental and emotional health so as to not lessen the quality of care I provide.

I will carry on the legacy of my predecessors by mentoring the next generation of diverse physicians.

I will recognize the pivotal role of ethical research in the advancement of medicine and commit myself to endless scholarship with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.

I will care for my patients’ holistic well-being, not solely their pathology. With empathy, compassion and humility, I will prioritize understanding each patient’s narrative, background and experiences while protecting privacy and autonomy.

I will champion diversity in both medicine and society, and promote an inclusive environment by respecting the perspectives of others and relentlessly seeking to identify and eliminate my personal biases.

I will be an ally to those of low socioeconomic status, the BIPOC community, the LGBTQIA+ community, womxn/women, differently-abled individuals and other underserved groups in order to dismantle the systemic racism and prejudice that medical professionals and society have perpetuated.

I will educate myself on social determinants of health in order to use my voice as a physician to advocate for a more equitable health care system from the local to the global level.

I will restore trust between the health care community and the population in which I serve by holding myself and others accountable, and by combating misinformation in order to improve health literacy.

In making this oath, I embrace the ever-changing responsibilities of being a physician and pledge to uphold the integrity of the profession in the clinic and beyond.

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