Med school scraps program that bars whites after federal complaint

Do No Harm hails the change as a victory against racial discrimination in medical school admissions.

The Ohio State University College of Medicine removed race-based criteria from a research program description on its website following a federal civil rights complaint filed by Do No Harm.

The Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, offers extra research experience to prospective PhD students. It initially specified that only applicants who are “Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander” were eligible, according to the archived version of the description.

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