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New study finds top medical schools value left-wing activism over science

Forget anatomy or physiology: Many of the medical students heading back to class this month are taking courses that focus more on social justice and diversity.

That’s my conclusion in a new study that analyzes the curricula at medical schools across the country.

Future physicians are spending more time on divisive political topics and less time on the medical science on which individual and public health depend — a fact that should terrify policymakers and patients alike.

My study — the first to document the prevalence of ideology in medical school curricula — focuses on schools’ publicly available course catalogs.

Using the US News and World Report rankings, I started with the top-ranked institutions in the country, then worked my way down the list.

EXCLUSIVE: Red States Urge Federal Court To Halt ‘Medical Scandal,’ Unblock Child Sex Change Ban

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Nearly two dozen states are urging a federal appeals court to uphold Florida’s ban on child sex change operations, warning that history may not look kindly on the sterilization of children for gender distress.

In a brief filed Wednesday and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 22 other state attorneys general urged the eleventh circuit court of appeals to reverse a lower court ruling that overturned Florida’s pediatric sex-change ban. The amici noted that until recently, “providing sex-change treatments to minors was practically unthinkable,” and recognized that many states and European countries have already created age-based restrictions on sex-change medical interventions.

Climate change classes should be ‘mandatory’ in med school, doctor says

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‘Irresponsible’ not to train ‘future practitioners for the realities they will be facing’

Climate change courses should be “mandatory” for aspiring doctors, according to medical students and clinicians in Michigan.

“My personal opinion is that it should be mandatory,” Dr. Lisa DelBuono told The College Fix via email. “Climate change has been politicized, but it is not a political issue… It would be irresponsible to not prepare future practitioners for the realities they will be facing.”

“Fossil fuels pollution and climate change are making Michigan residents sick today, and the impacts are on track to become much worse going forward,” she said. “The good news is that climate solutions are health solutions and most of what we do to address climate change will improve human health, save lives, and save healthcare dollars.”

Read more on The College Fix.

Cleveland Clinic Scrubs Race-Based Center From Website After Complaint

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The Cleveland Clinic scrubbed references to its minority-only health clinic after a conservative group filed a federal civil rights complaint against the provider earlier this month.

The Clinic removed information on its “Minority Men’s Health Center” from its website sometime after August 14, when the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services accusing the clinic of illegal discrimination. The complaint was filed on behalf of Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine.

The complaint specifically took issue with the clinic’s racially-focused “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center.”

International ‘equity’ scholars can’t define ‘gender’ after 5 years of research

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International scholars concluded a five-year “equity” project by determining the concept of “gender” cannot be defined but should be incorporated into all aspects of scientific research nonetheless.

Funded by the European Union, their research was part of a project called GENDER-NET Plus. Launched in 2017, it brought together scholars from various countries to overcome “challenges in achieving gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation.”

Their final report “Integrating gender analysis into research,” published in The Lancet in July, summarized the scholars’ thoughts on “how to best integrate both sex and gender into studies ranging from social sciences, humanities, and health research.”

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UC San Diego scrubs female-only STEM program after federal complaint

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The University of California San Diego removed some information about its STEM program only open to female high school students following a federal civil rights complaint.

The physical sciences’ department page for “STEM Girl Summer” returns an “access denied” message.

However, the university still lists information on the program elsewhere, including in a social media post last week.

Civil rights activist Mark Perry told The College Fix he believes the university removed the information after he shared a “courtesy copy” of his Title IX complaint. He said in his complaint that the university should open the program to all students or create an equivalent opportunity for male students.

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Left-Wing Nonprofit Steered ‘Health Equity’ Grants Based On Race, Watchdog Says

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The Greater Washington Community Foundation (GWCF) runs a “Health Equity” program that appears to racially discriminate against applicants in its grant-making process, according to the medical watchdog group Do No Harm.

The GWCF says its “Health Equity Fund” prioritizes grants to “BIPOC-led organizations” in order to achieve “equitable health outcomes for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized populations in Washington, DC.” Applicants are required to submit a “letter of intent” that lists demographics such as race, gender and ethnic background of board members from partner organizations, according to an informational webinar posted online in October 2023.

Medical School Drops Scholarship Program Offered Only to Racial Minorities

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A medical school is scrapping a scholarship program that was created exclusively for racial minorities after a watchdog organization filed a civil-rights complaint alleging discriminatory behavior.

Western Michigan University’s School of Medicine shuttered its “Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Scholarship Program” earlier this week after Do No Harm, a watchdog organization opposed to race preferences in medicine, filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education in January 2023, National Review has learned.

“During the investigation, the Medical School notified OCR that it discontinued the program. The Medical School further confirmed that it removed promotional material regarding the program from its website,” the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights said Monday in a letter exclusively obtained by National Review.

UCLA medical school hired students to write course curriculum emphasizing ‘Structural Racism and Health Equity’

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The University of California, Los Angeles Medical School hired students to write the curriculum for the school’s required Structural Racism and Health Equity (SRHE) courses.

A June 2023 document that was obtained by Do No Harm, a medical and policy advocacy group, showed that UCLA’s medical school was seeking to recruit first and second year medical students to develop a curriculum associated with liberal ideas such as critical race theory.

The Voter-Registration Guide Will See You Now

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A worrisome new consensus in the medical community holds that doctors should be as concerned with politics as they are with medicine.

“We again discussed . . . the importance of voting and the safety, security, and effectiveness of voting by mail.”

These probably aren’t the words you’d expect to see in a medical record. Yet that’s what a medical professional at a prominent northeastern hospital wrote earlier this year after seeing a patient. The record, a de-identified version of which was provided to my organization, shows a new and profoundly concerning trend in medicine: Leftists are making the doctor’s office a major cog in their voter-registration and turnout machine.

No, Michael Bloomberg — black doctors don’t offer better care to blacks than white ones

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Aug. 6 was a great day for the next generation of black doctors.

But it was also a reminder that divisive and discriminatory ideology has infected American medicine.

The praiseworthy part is that Michael Bloomberg gave $600 million to four historically black medical schools.

That money will help defray the exorbitant cost of medical school, hopefully for those with the greatest financial need.

The painful part is that Bloomberg gave this gift in service to a lie — one that encourages racism and even medicine’s re-segregation, though the former mayor surely doesn’t realize it.

Seattle Children’s Hospital Segregates Doctors by Race, Asks Them To Tap ‘Repressed Racial Memories’ in Leaked Training

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Stomach doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital were forced to attend a racially segregated diversity training that included lessons on “critical race theory,” claimed black people are “systematically targeted for demise,” and pressed white doctors to “tap into their repressed racial memories” to develop a white “race-consciousness,” according to slides from the training obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Held in August 2022, the training was mandatory for the gastroenterology department and divided participants into three “racial caucuses”—a white caucus, a black caucus, and a “Non-Black POC Caucus”—to “minimize harm to our black learners and facilitator.”

Read more on the Washington Free Beacon.

Female medical program won’t exclude white students after discrimination complaint

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A top medical fellowship for women will stop excluding white applicants after a complaint accused the program of being racially discriminatory in light of the Supreme Court outlawing affirmative action last year.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization that serves as a watchdog in the healthcare industry, filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of female students who met the criteria for the $20,000 award offered by the American Association of University Women but were excluded on the basis of race. Attorneys for both groups wrote in a joint stipulation on Aug. 9 that the lawsuit would be dismissed after AAUW agreed to “not consider” any future applicants’ race or ethnicity.

Barbara Kay: Groundswell against gender-affirming care becoming too loud to ignore

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Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).

The interim report alleged inadequate assessment, rushed medicalization, failures to safeguard children, indifference to the special vulnerability of autistic and same-sex attracted patients, substandard research, undue influence of political actors and intimidation of whistleblower staff.

‘No one is losing their jobs’: After Stitt executive order, OU DEI rebranded

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In December 2023, Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an executive order seeking to downsize or eliminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) offices and bureaucracy at Oklahoma colleges and prevent colleges from engaging in illegal discrimination.

“In Oklahoma, we’re going to encourage equal opportunity, rather than promising equal outcomes,” Stitt said at the time. “Encouraging our workforce, economy, and education systems to flourish means shifting focus away from exclusivity and discrimination, and toward opportunity and merit. We’re taking politics out of education and focusing on preparing students for the workforce.”

But at the University of Oklahoma, it appears college officials responded to the order primarily by relabeling DEI offices and positions, and no DEI staff positions were eliminated, based on emails obtained through an open-records request.

“This is a tactic that has been seen in other institutions: rename and rebrand the office to something that doesn’t mention DEI, but maintains the same leadership and initiatives,” said Laura Morgan, a registered nurse with 40 years of experience who is now senior director of programs for the organization Do No Harm. “Staff members may be distributed to other departments where the work of engaging in identity politics continues, but on the surface level the university appears to comply with the law.

REVEALED: The proof that federal health chiefs backed puberty blockers for trans kids despite KNOWING they can kill

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under fire for backing the use of puberty blockers for transgender children, even when officials knew they presented life-threatening health risks.

Internal FDA emails obtained in a lawsuit show how officials knew the drugs, which delay the onset of puberty, raise the risks of users having seizures, depression, and committing suicide.

Even so, FDA team chief Shannon Sullivan wrote in a January 2022 email to colleagues that ‘there is definitely a need for these to drugs to be approved for gender transition.’

The revelations have drawn fierce criticism from Republicans, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who called the ‘beyond troubling’ and part of a broader effort to promote sex change care.

Med school scraps program that bars whites after federal complaint

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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.

Read more on The College Fix.

Medical school removes portraits of ‘old, white’ former deans in name of ‘diversity’

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Students, faculty did not ‘always feel welcome’

Canada’s Dalhousie University Medical School has taken down portraits of its former “old” and “white” deans because they are “no longer representative of the school’s student body.”

According to Do No Harm, Dean of Medicine David Anderson announced the move in a mid-July message regarding the school’s “Valuing People” initiative.

The initiative “focuses on our belief that people and culture can set us apart, and if we start with a ‘people first’ approach, anything is possible,” Anderson wrote. “To do this, we must focus on creating positive, safe, and inclusive environments for people to thrive.”

Read more on The College Fix.