Medical Orgs Slapped With Complaints For Alleged Discriminatory Hiring Practices

Medical advocacy organization Do No Harm filed complaints Tuesday against Atlantic Health System and Nemours Children’s Health, alleging discriminatory DEI practices. The complaints, filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR), accused these organizations of race-based hiring practices that may violate federal anti-discrimination laws.

Atlantic Health’s Minority Visiting Clerkship Program (MVCP) for fourth-year medical students is a program specifically for groups “underrepresented in medicine.” According to Atlantic Health, these groups include “African American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native.”

“Students selected to participate are awarded inpatient residency rotations, an interview for full-time residency after medical school, mentorship, and valuable networking opportunities with hospital staff,” according to a Do No Harm (DNH) press release obtained by The Federalist.

Similarly, Nemours Children’s Visiting Student Scholar Program is limited to those “underrepresented in medicine as any racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, or ability status group whose numbers in medicine are not reflective of that group’s population of the United States.” Therefore, only members of minority groups qualify for this program, which offers a stipend, several rotation options, and networking opportunities.

Read more at the Federalist.

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