In the year since, there has been no sign that the pressure is letting up. In February, the CEO of Do No Harm, a group that advocates against diversity initiatives in medicine, wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal calling DEI “a threat to Americans’ health,” specifically calling out the language in the structural competency standard. In the days after LCME published the 2027-2028 standards, Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, wrote in a statement that “this marks a major victory and step forward in the ongoing battle over the future of medical education in America.”
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