EXCLUSIVE: Medical Schools Press Ahead Answering ‘Clarion Call’ To Wokeness

Medical school mission statements are becoming increasingly laden with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and social justice language, a report released Monday found.

Do No Harm, a medical advocacy organization working to keep DEI and other political topics out of medicine, reviewed 158 medical school mission statements and found that 77% could be classified as “woke” in 2024, a number that increased substantially from 68% in 2021, according to a report first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The report also found that “Higher ranked medical schools were more likely to increase the wokeness of their mission.”

daily“There are desirable qualities to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, but when these terms are presented together in the context of a mission statement, they are markers for a particular worldview,” the report reads. “That ‘woke’ worldview indicates a significant departure from the traditional American emphasis on individual responsibility and equal treatment in favor of emphasizing differentiated treatment by group identity and social rather than individual justice.”

Read more in the Daily Caller.