Do No Harm Publishes Report Finding Medical and Healthcare Education Accreditors Are Abandoning DEI

RICHMOND, VA; July 24, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm published a new report titled “Are Medical And Healthcare Education Accreditors Abandoning DEI?” The report, a follow-up to Do No Harm’s previous report exposing accreditors for injecting identity politics into medical and healthcare education, found that the accreditation landscape has changed dramatically since President Trump’s executive order to reform accreditation. Seven of the ten accrediting bodies identified in the previous report have either eliminated diversity requirements, proposed eliminating them, or pledged not to enforce these requirements.

“We are pleased that many of the accreditors responsible for injecting identity politics into medical education are backing off their DEI requirements,” said Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Chairman of Do No Harm. “While these early results are encouraging, there is still much work to be done to rid our institutions entirely of the rot of racial politics. Removing DEI from accreditation standards is necessary, but to fully reform medical education, schools must also abandon DEI in favor of merit everywhere it is found.”

Do No Harm’s first report examined the role that accreditors played in imposing diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements on medical education programs. These requirements complicate efforts to reform discriminatory and abusive DEI practices, as medical schools could point to accreditation standards to justify their DEI programs.

This updated accreditor report identifies the accreditors that are backing off DEI, and the accreditors that continue to push divisive identity politics.

Click here to read the latest report.

Click here to read the first accreditor report.

Key Findings:

• Do No Harm found that seven medical and healthcare education accreditors have either eliminated diversity requirements, proposed eliminating them, or pledged not to enforce these requirements.
• Do No Harm found that three accreditors have not made any changes to their diversity requirements.
• The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the accrediting body for medical residency programs, suspended enforcement of two key diversity requirements, citing state DEI bans.
• The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education removed diversity requirements and the phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from its standards.  
• The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education removed a requirement to promote a culture of “JEDI” or “justice, equity, diversity, [and] inclusivity,” as well as “anti-racism.”
• The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, The American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation, and The Accreditation Council on Optometric Education all have retained their diversity requirements.

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Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. With over 22,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries, DNH has achieved over 10,000 media hits in top-tier publications and garnered widespread attention through numerous broadcast news appearances.