Earlier this month, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the main accrediting body for allopathic medical schools, quietly updated its 2027-2028 standards.
The change, unannounced and easy to miss, is enormously consequential: the LCME removed the requirement that medical schools inject DEI-oriented content into their curricula.
Previously, the standards required schools to provide “opportunities for medical students to learn to recognize and appropriately address biases in themselves, in others, and in the health care delivery process,” and to include in their curricula “approaches to reduce health care inequities.”
The new standards, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, omit this DEI language entirely.
This is a massive, massive victory for medical education.
With this change, medical schools will no longer be forced to indoctrinate students into a divisive, discriminatory ideology.
And what’s more, they will no longer have the fig leaf of LCME mandates to justify even more radical DEI-infested curriculum content.
The change is the LCME’s second major update to its standards following President Trump’s executive order directly targeting accreditors for imposing divisive and discriminatory policies on higher education; that executive order mentioned the LCME by name.
In May 2025, the LCME removed Standard 3.3, which forced medical schools to have in place “programs and/or partnerships” aimed at achieving diversity, effectively encouraging racial discrimination.
Additionally, the changes follow Do No Harm’s report exposing accreditors for injecting DEI into medical schools and healthcare education programs through accreditation standards.
Since our report, the vast majority of medical and healthcare education accreditors have ditched or suspended their DEI mandates.
