Do No Harm Unveils Medical School DEI ‘Watchlist’

Too often, medical schools use diversity, equity, and inclusion or “DEI” as a cover for racially discriminatory practices.

Scholarships and awards are restricted to certain racial groups on the grounds of “health equity,” and privileging certain racial groups in the admissions process is justified on the grounds of “diversity.”

That’s why Do No Harm is unveiling our “watchlist” of over 70 medical schools that still maintain offices dedicated to DEI and related concepts. Many of these schools, such as The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine or the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, have already been the subject of Do No Harm’s work exposing their discriminatory practices.

From our experience, DEI is often just a proxy for overt or covert racial discrimination, and the institutions championing inclusivity and diversity are often the same institutions handicapping deserving students based on their race.

The list follows on the heels of executive orders by President Trump cracking down on discriminatory practices at institutions of higher education, such as race-based admissions and exclusionary scholarship programs.

Additionally, on February 14, the Department of Education gave institutions of higher education receiving federal funds a deadline of February 28 to cease all racially discriminatory policies, programs, and practices. The Department correctly noted that many of these offensive policies are justified on the grounds of DEI.

That means that medical schools have already been put on notice.

Medical schools have a choice. They can either end their regressive, discriminatory policies and practices, or continue violating students’ constitutional rights in pursuit of a radical political agenda.

If they choose the latter, they risk losing access to federal funding.