A course being offered at Harvard Medical School claims that there are infants within the LGBTQ+ community.
‘Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults,’ the course description reads.
A course being offered at Harvard Medical School claims that there are infants within the LGBTQ+ community.
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The United States is the “most permissive country” for legal and medical gender transition of children, according to a new study.
The report, released on Monday by Do No Harm, a group that seeks to insulate the health care profession from “radical, diverse, and discriminatory ideology,” compared the United States with 11 Northern and Western European countries on metrics including legal requirements to change gender; provisions for medical transition; the minimum age for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones; and the number of youth gender clinics.
“In a sharp departure from the gender affirmation model employed in the United States, these countries now discourage automatic deference to a child’s self-declarations on the grounds that the risks outweigh the benefits, while also calling for months-long psychotherapy sessions to address co-occurring mental health problems,” the report states. “Notably, in the United Kingdom, the Cass Review attributed the lack of safeguards for children at the largest pediatric gender center to the ‘affirmative model,’ which ‘originated in the USA.’”
Read more at The Epoch Times.
Medical school also reportedly practices ‘holistic admissions,’ ‘reviews salaries for ‘diversity’
The College of Medicine at Texas A&M University removed prominently placed photos of white male alumni to show its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, it stated in a recent survey.
The institution completed the survey for the Association of American Medical Colleges last year, which the organization used for its Diversity, Inclusion, Culture and Equity Inventory, according to the Washington Examiner, which reviewed the documents and reported on them Monday.
Do No Harm, a nonprofit of medical professionals opposing social justice ideology in medicine, obtained the responses through a Freedom of Information Act and shared them with the Examiner, the news outlet stated.
Read more at The College Fix.
The faculty hiring process at Virginia Commonwealth University and its medical school requires applicants to provide a statement of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that is factored into their application, new documents show.
In a series of survey questions by the Association of American Medical Colleges that sought to discern the commitment by various medical schools to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, the VCU School of Medicine said it required faculty applicants to submit a “diversity statement.” The school’s responses to the AAMC survey were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner.
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The College Fix contacted Dr. Campbell for comment but received no response.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases provided further information in response to a Fix inquiry.
“One of NIDDK’s strategic scientific goals is to advance the understanding of biological pathways and environmental contributors to health and disease,” NIDDK Public Liaison Alyssa Voss told The Fix on Jan. 11.
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The medical school at Texas Tech University repeatedly touted its affirmative action plan in a survey for the Association of American Medical Colleges on its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion , new documents show.
The responses contributed to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s 84% score on the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey, indicating “substantial diversity, inclusion, culture, and equity efforts.” The school’s responses to the survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and exclusively shared with the Washington Examiner.
The school informed the AAMC in the survey that the institution’s office of equal opportunity annually presented the university presidential Cabinet with the school’s affirmative action plan. The school also said it had recently created a new position of vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion that had been “tasked with developing a university wide action plan that outlines a specific set of achievable goals that will advance diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
Harvard Medical School announced Tuesday it had withdrawn from the U.S. News & World Report medical school rankings due to “philosophical” concerns.
The medical school will no longer send information to U.S. News & World Reportto be considered for its list of top-ranked medical schools in the United States, according to the announcement by Dr. George Q. Daley, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard, sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Critics have opposed the methodology of the rankings, which consider factors including peer assessments, residency directors assessments, test scores, acceptance rate and student grade point averages; however Daley said that his concerns with the system were philosophical.
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Although the United States may be more conservative than many European countries on some social issues, doctors, activists, and politicians in the U.S. have pushed experimental transgender interventions for children far beyond many European countries, which have stronger protections for kids, according to a new report.
“Europe is becoming ever more conservative while the United States has pursued a path that’s ever more aggressive and radical,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a board-certified kidney doctor, former professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and board chair of Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday.
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The dean of Harvard Medical School announced Tuesday that the school would no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report rankings less than two months after multiple law schools across the country did the same.
In a letter to the school’s community, Dean George Daley said that the prestigious Ivy League medical school would no longer submit data to the publication that has annually ranked colleges and universities for quality.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
The University of Houston College of Medicine says part of its institutional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion includes lobbying for the doubling of the federal Pell Grant program, new documents revealed.
In a series of responses to a survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Texas medical school said lobbying the federal government to double the maximum award for Pell Grants was an example of the institution’s advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the public policy level.
The school’s responses to the AAMC’s Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity Inventory survey were obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act request and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner. Among the dozens of questions included in the survey was whether or not the school had advocated at the national, state, and local level for policies and legislation in line with diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
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America makes sex change surgeries and treatments more easily accessible than any other European country, according to a new study by Do No Harm.
The study analyzed laws in European countries, and compared them to laws in America, concluding that minors in America have more access to puberty blockers, hormonal therapies, and sex change surgeries than youths in Europe, Fox News reports. (RELATED: Attorney Generals Plead With The FDA To Reverse Decision On ‘Abortion Inducing Drugs’)
Read more at The Daily Caller.
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. is more lenient than any European country when it comes to allowing children to access medical services for gender transitions, according to a new study.
The study, published by Do No Harm, a group that seeks to insulate the health care profession from “radical, diverse and discriminatory ideology,” analyzed the laws of European countries and concluded “the United States is the most permissive country when it comes to the legal and medical gender transition of children.” Laws vary in the U.S. by state, but overall, transgender youth in America have greater access to gender clinics, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, oftentimes without parental consent.
Dr. William Malone, a board-certified endocrinologist, said the U.S. political environment discourages doctors from critiquing the use of unproven and risky medical interventions in youth because they fear backlash from influential medical associations and politicians.
Read more at Fox News.
The Department of Education is investigating a pair of California university medical schools for allegedly engaging in racial discrimination in their programming and scholarships offerings.
The probe was launched after Mark Perry of Do No Harm, a nonprofit fighting against the progressive capture of medicine, filed a federal civil-rights complaint alleging that the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by academic programs that receive federal funding.
Read more at the National Review.
Have Florida’s taxpayer-funded colleges and universities embraced divisive and even discriminatory ideas?
That’s the question Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered them to answer in a Dec. 28 letter his administration sent to each school in the Florida College System and the State University System. It’s a valid ask, given the politicization of higher education, and the truth is essential to ensuring that colleges and universities operate at the highest level. Yet the governor and his team may want to pay special attention to institutions that hardly anyone expects: Florida’s public medical schools.
The governor’s order is focused on race-based ideology, especially Critical Race Theory and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” These concepts typically hold that society suffers from “systemic racism,” while explicitly if not entirely focusing on people’s skin color instead of, say, their character or individual characteristics. They have been used to justify policies like preferential treatment by race in the name of righting past wrongs. No matter the attempted justification, the name for that is racial discrimination.
Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.
Employees working for a West Texas healthcare system were required to take an implicit bias training that said asking someone if they spoke English amounted to a microaggression.
According to documents obtained by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and shared with the Washington Examiner, Covenant Medical Center in Texas required its employees to complete an implicit bias training that contained a list of microaggressions worthy of an apology, including asking if someone spoke English and asking to speak to a manager.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
An Arizona health care education institution has self-reported to have instituted 95 percent of woke ideologies encouraged by a flagship medical association.
According to a Freedom of Information Act request obtained by Do No Harm (DNH)—a nonprofit watchdog organization that spotlights the emergence of divisive concepts in medical schools—the University of Arizona College of Medicine’s (UACOM) report to the Association of American Colleges (AAMC) touted a high score in what DNH called racially discriminatory admission practices under the guise of affirmative action.
“This means it’s potentially lowering standards in the name of diversity, thereby threatening patient health,” DNH told The Epoch Times.
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UPDATE: This piece has been updated to include a statement from David A. Acosta, MD, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) chief diversity and inclusion officer.
The University of California, Davis School of Medicine (UCDSOM) received a nearly perfect rating in diversity, equity and inclusion by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), according to survey results obtained by medical watchdog group Do No Harm and provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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In November, the Association of American Medical Colleges released its first-ever analysis detailing how medical schools across the country have implemented “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies.
According to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm, an organization aimed at protecting healthcare from divisive ideology, the AAMC surveyed 101 medical institutions asking for audits of their DEI programs. The AAMC asked the schools to answer 89 yes-or-no questions on their DEI activities and presented the results like a report card, Goldfarb explained in a piece for the New York Post. The schools that scored above 80 percent were colored green, and those that scored between 61 percent and 80 percent were yellow. Institutions below the 60 percent threshold were red, meaning they “failed.”
Read more at Townhall.