Posted on 04/24/2025 8:16:51 PM PDT by george76
DEI programs dilute medical education, expert says
Over 70 medical schools maintain offices dedicated to “diversity, equity and inclusion” despite federal orders to end such programs, a medical advocacy group found.
Do No Harm’s DEI tracker includes schools such as Albany Medical College, Duke University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Stanford University School of Medicine, among several others.
The advocacy group began tracking these offices in medical schools after the U.S. Department of Education instructed all institutions of higher education to end racially discriminatory policies in February.
President Donald Trump’s administration sent a “Dear Colleague letter” warning universities that they would lose federal funding if they continued to employ discriminatory practices, The College Fix previously reported. Universities were given a 14-day period to begin compliance.
Do No Harm’s research director, Ian Kingsbury, told The College Fix that DEI offices negatively impact medical education.
They push schools to adopt race-based “rather than purely meritocratic admissions and faculty hiring/promotion,” he told The Fix via email.
Kingsbury also said DEI programs push for curricula to focus on social issues instead of material that directly benefits doctors in their medical practice.
Further, DEI programs “enforce speech codes and create a culture of fear that infringes upon academic freedom.”
Even when the programs have supposedly ended, “it’s initially difficult to gauge which ones have in fact dismantled DEI or which ones are operating stealth programs,” Kingsbury told The Fix.
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The ideology states “that any disparity in racial representation in any institution is per se the result of racism, whether intentional or ‘systemic,’” she said.
Mac Donald also told The Fix that this ideology has led to the simplification of medical licensing tests, as black medical students’ lower average scores have prevented them from obtaining their preferred residencies.
“Every minute that students spend studying the phantom problem of medical school racism is a minute not learning how to save a life,” Mac Donald said.
She told The Fix that DEI offices perpetuate the ideology, but eliminating them will not necessarily rid the harmful ideas to which they are dedicated.
Some experts, on the other hand, believe DEI enhances medical education.
Samantha Truman, the chief executive officer of Advancing Health Equity, told The College Fix that medical schools are gateways for shaping the next generation of healthcare leaders “who will care for diverse patient populations across the country.” AHE is a non-profit that partners “with organizations on their journey to eliminate bias and discrimination in healthcare,” according to its website.
Truman believes DEI “play[s] a vital role in creating the infrastructure needed to uplift underrepresented voices and foster more inclusive environments.”
“[W]e’ve consistently seen how a lack of cultural responsiveness and understanding directly impacts patient health outcomes and perpetuates disparities in care,” she said.
“A diverse healthcare workforce leads to deeper empathy, greater psychological safety, and better clinical care,” Truman said.
The College Fix reached out to several organizations on the watchlist, including the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Central Michigan University, and Albany Medical College via email in the last two weeks to ask about their DEI offices. None responded.
I am no fan of DEI, but if the school is doing it without Federal money…they can do what they want.
I don’t want to be treated by a doctor who can’t define what a woman is.
Or one that hates white men.
DEI offices negatively impact medical education:
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<><>push for curricula to focus on social issues
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<><>enforces speech codes
<><>creates a culture of fear
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<><>even when dismantled, stealth programs dominate,
<><>ideologues insist racial representation is racist, whether intentional or systemic
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<><>perpetuates disparities in healthcare.
Sadly people of color that earned achievements through merit have to live under the cloud of DEI.This agenda will backfire in the long run and reverse racism will just cause more racism.
So can the administration. Pull accreditation.
The cancer is within our life and death realm, airlines, medical, fire fighters and police.
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