Do No Harm Medical Director Kurt Miceli, MD, Testifies Before Congress

Today, Do No Harm Medical Director Kurt Miceli, MD, testified before the House Subcommittee on Education and Workforce Development at a hearing titled “Restoring Excellence: The Case Against DEI.”

In his opening remarks, Dr. Miceli explained how DEI has come to infect medical education and the medical field as a whole, pointing to the main institutional culprits behind the rise of DEI ideology: medical associations, medical schools, accreditors, and certifying bodies.

Next, in an exchange with Representative Burgess Owens (R-UT), Dr. Miceli debunked the oft-repeated notion that racial concordance – in which patients are treated by physicians of the same race – improves health outcomes.

“We look at this question of racial concordance – the idea that black patients do better with black doctors or white patients do better with white doctors – one of the things we understand is that four out of five systematic reviews that have looked at that question find there is no difference in outcome by racial concordance,” Dr. Miceli said.

Dr. Miceli continued by examining the role of medical education accreditors in propagating DEI, while also noting some good news: the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recently announced that it would be suspending enforcement of two key “diversity” requirements, following an executive order by President Trump targeting accreditors for injecting DEI into medical education.

“It’s essential that the standards are based on merit, and only merit, so that we make sure we have exceptional physicians that are out there, and nothing else,” he said.

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