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‘Social justice’ schools: Medical association praises diversity efforts in doctor education

The Association of American Medical Colleges praised U.S. medical schools for their commitment to diversity, equity , and inclusion, or DEI, in a new report that detailed nationwide efforts at the colleges to implement diversity programs.

The report, released earlier this month, said that all 101 participating medical schools had implemented diversity initiatives in their admissions practices, and the vast majority of senior administrators at those schools had expressed support for DEI.

What will DeSantis say? Florida medical college is slammed for pushing ‘equity’ CRT initiatives and for training a new generation of ‘antiracists’ as part of degree, despite Governor’s ban on affirmative action

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The University of Florida’s College of Medicine has been accused of ‘indoctrinating’ graduates ‘in divisive philosophies’ through building critical race theory into its admissions and courses.

The Do No Harm campaign group, which combats woke ideology in healthcare, says prospective students are exposed to ‘social justice activism’ from the moment they express an interest in studying at the school.

Do No Harm says this ‘continues through the admissions process, and persists throughout the doctoral program’.

12 Okla. universities discriminate against white and Asian students: federal complaint

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National Science Foundation-funded program requires illegal discrimination, group alleges

Twelve Oklahoma universities have been hit with a federal civil rights complaint for their participation in a STEM program that excludes white, Asian and Middle Eastern students.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit group fighting wokeness in healthcare, filed the complaints due to the universities’ participation in the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program. The complaints have been filed with the Department of Education, but it does not mean an investigation will necessarily take place.

University of Florida College of Medicine pushes ‘destructive’ woke agenda on students, report says

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EXCLUSIVE: The University of Florida College of Medicine incorporates aspects of critical race theory into its admissions and educational programs, according to a new report obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.

The report from Do No Harm, a group of medical workers against divisive racial policies in medicine, explains that the college uses “equity” initiatives to train a new generation of “antiracists” in medical fields — two terms at the core of critical race theory. Those initiatives include active recruitment of “underrepresented groups,” suggested readings on diversity and equity for aspiring student and a code of ethics that explains how to address implicit bias.

Report Reveals Just How Much the DEI Complex Has Infiltrated Medical Education

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Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that reward scholarship on “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” Seventy percent make students take a course on “diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence.” And 79 percent require that all hiring committees receive “unconscious bias” training or include “equity advisors”—people whose job it is to ensure diversity among the faculty.

Those are just some of the findings from a new report by the Association of American Medical Colleges, which together with the American Medical Association accredits every medical school in the United States. The report, “The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools,” is based on a survey of 101 medical school deans—representing nearly two thirds of American medical schools—who were given a list of diversity policies and asked to indicate which ones they had implemented.

Read more at the Washington Free Beacon.

‘Diversity to the Exclusion of Merit’: Physician Criticizes Woke Initiatives in Medical Schools

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A flagship medical association that represents major medical schools nationwide has released a November 2022 report promoting woke culture in medical schools.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a Washington-based nonprofit comprising 157 accredited U.S. medical schools; 14 accredited Canadian medical schools; approximately 400 teaching hospitals and health systems; and up to 80 academic societies.

The goal of the report, according to its executive summary, is to improve medical schools’ “climate and culture through collective administration of Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity (DICE) Inventory.”

A Woke Panic on Maternal Mortality

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Is there an epidemic of black mothers dying in the delivery room? So it would seem, given the drumbeat of academic studies and media stories over the past few years, including from Oprah Winfrey and the Biden administration. Yet it turns out that these alarming reports have more to do with advancing the notion of systemic racism than medical reality. Instead of letting radical activists remake health care, America should invest in proven ways to reduce the small number of maternal mortality cases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created the public concern about black maternal mortality. In February, the CDC released data showing that the maternal mortality rate for black women is 2.9 times higher than the rate for white women. It’s a worrisome statistic, yet the CDC’s own data, as well as a study from the CDC Foundation, provide crucial (and generally unreported) context.

To be clear, even a single death of a pregnant woman is one too many. But the overwhelming majority of women survive motherhood: in 2020, according to the CDC, 861 women in the United States died related to pregnancy, out of a total of about 3.6 million births—a rate of 0.02 percent. Just over 350 were white, while just under 300 were black. Scientifically speaking, it’s hard to draw society-wide conclusions from such a small sample. It’s even harder when you recognize that the CDC statistics include deaths that occurred up to a year after delivery, as well as those caused by underlying and preexisting medical conditions that pregnancy may have aggravated. And the CDC admits that the systems for identifying mortality rates are prone to error.

The CDC Foundation, which commissioned an expert panel to review maternal mortality statistics, dives deeper into the facts. After analyzing state data from the late-2000s to the mid-2010s, the panel found that only about a third of the reported deaths within a year of pregnancy were pregnancy-related. Furthermore, 42 percent of the deaths were not preventable, resulting from issues like cardiovascular disease and pulmonary embolism. Other contributing factors, such as hypertension and kidney disease, are often genetic. (A fuller discussion of this context is available on Do No Harm’s website.)

The panel found that less than about a third of the preventable deaths, across all races, were attributable to individual providers. It did not cite racial bias as the reason. Yet the academic and media narrative leads to the assumption that black mothers are dying because doctors and nurses are racist. This leads to a corresponding claim that black mothers would die less often if they saw black doctors, which some call “racial concordance.” These are strange assertions, since Hispanic maternal mortality is lower than the rate for whites, which wouldn’t be true if medical professionals were racist. Yet these claims are still being used to justify discriminatory and dangerous policies across health care.

Look at education. To achieve racial concordance, activists and academics are demanding increased diversity in medical school and training programs. That’s a noble goal, in the abstract, but medical schools are pursuing it by lowering standards, including dropping MCAT requirements for some minority applicants. The United States Medical Licensing Exam has abandoned objective numerical grading for a pass/fail system, the better to get minority students into competitive and prestigious training programs. These policies involve discrimination against white and Asian medical students, while endangering patient health by recruiting potentially less qualified future physicians.

A similar trend is underway in medical practice. The supposedly unequal treatment of black mothers helps drive the spread of “implicit bias” testing and training, which accuses white doctors and nurses of being inherently and irredeemably racist. And we can expect a full-throated campaign to give black mothers preferential access to care, which requires de-prioritizing mothers of other races. Such overtly discriminatory practices have already been announced in other medical fields, including in the cardiology department at one of Harvard’s teaching hospitals, and it’s only a matter of time before they come to maternity care.

These trends are rooted in ideology, not science, and given how they’re being implemented, they’re far more likely to hurt care for all mothers than help improve care for black mothers. That’s not to say that we can’t do anything to prevent black mothers from dying during or after pregnancy. Policymakers should focus on the hospitals that black mothers rely on, ensuring that they have the services and staffing necessary to deal with complicated pregnancies. They should also promote high-quality prenatal care, which black mothers are more likely to lack.

We should strive to end maternal mortality for mothers of all races, including black mothers. But we shouldn’t let woke ideologues stoke a panic and use it as cover to embed race-based policies and practices at every level of health care.

Amid Tech Layoffs, Executives Weigh Suddenly Controversial Diversity Initiatives

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The drama and division that afflicted school boards this past year may be coming to medical schools next – as the medical school rating outfit battles with dissident professors and activist groups over diversity and inclusion initiatives.

As corporate executives consider hiring freezes and layoffs – even at tech giants like Amazon, which announced its first layoffs in more than a decade this week, and Facebook, whose parent company Meta announced layoffs of 11,000 tech workers – typically marketing, HR, and diversity workers are targeted first. Given the political battles raging at public high schools and colleges and now medical schools, executives might want to weigh more carefully whether it is prudent to trim “soft” jobs that are disproportionately held by women and minorities.

Nurse Fired for Opposing ‘Implicit Bias’ Training Now Fighting Divisive Ideology in Health Care

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Laura Morgan has complied with annual training requirements in the medical field for years, from privacy protocols and compliance regulations to ethics guidelines. But when one session asked her to acknowledge her “racial, unconscious bias,” she had to dissent.

“The whole premise is that I must look at patients through a racial instead of a clinical lens,” Morgan told The Epoch Times.

Her implicit bias training at Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas asked her to challenge a bias that she and all others who attended were assumed to have within them.

“We do not think about ourselves as being racist or ageist or biased against others,” said one of the slides in the presentation (pdf). “But what about the biases we are not aware of?”

First, Do No Harm: Fighting For Patients And Against Politicization Of Health Care

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Physician, former Member of Congress, and IWF board member Nan Hayworth talks with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, about the experiences with “woke” politicization of academic medicine that inspired him to found Do No Harm.

Race Medicine: American Medical Establishment Touts Social Justice Overhaul

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A report done by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) — the leading organization for medical schools, teaching hospitals, and scientific studies — shows the expansion of race-based ideology in the practice of medicine.

The report, titled “The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts at AAMC Medical Schools,” outlined self-audits from schools regarding the level to which they were pushing the political agenda into aspects of their functions.

Oklahoma Colleges Accused of Civil Rights Violation

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A civil rights complaint filed recently accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of illegally discriminating against students based on race and national origin. The complaint was filed by Mark Perry, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and senior fellow with Do No Harm, a conservative group of medical professionals, the Oklahoma City Sentinel reported.

The lawsuit alleges that the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, a program offered at the colleges and focused on increasing the number of underrepresented students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM fields, discriminates against students based on race and national origin.

Civil-Rights complaint filed over Oklahoma Colleges’ discrimination

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A newly filed federal civil-rights complaint accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of illegally discriminating against students based on race and national origin via a program that specifically excludes students based on those traits.

“Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education shouldn’t be complicit in advertising and sponsoring academic programs that discriminate on the basis of race,” said Laura Morgan, a registered nurse who is program manager for Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals.

Civil-Rights Complaint Filed Over Oklahoma Colleges’ Discrimination

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A newly filed federal civil-rights complaint accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of illegally discriminating against students based on race and national origin via a program that specifically excludes students based on those traits.

“Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education shouldn’t be complicit in advertising and sponsoring academic programs that discriminate on the basis of race,” said Laura Morgan, a registered nurse who is program manager for Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals. “Twelve Oklahoma universities are participating in the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, supported by the National Science Foundation, (which) requires that applicants ‘must identify as an underrepresented minority.’ Specifically, eligible applicants are restricted to ‘African American, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.’ Because this is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, we’ve filed a federal complaint with the Office for Civil Rights. Great medicine has no room for racism or discrimination of any kind, and certainly not in the medical education programs.”

Watchdog Report Spotlights Rise of Discriminatory Social Justice Ideologies in NC Medical School

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Despite Martin Luther King’s dream that people be treated based on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, a group of health care professionals have experienced discriminatory indoctrination sessions at a North Carolina medical school that they say violate the Civil Rights Act.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of the non-profit watchdog organization Do No Harm (DNH), told The Epoch Times that the goal of DNH is to fight against the woke ideologies that are cropping up in health care and draining resources from the practice of medicine.

Group finds ‘anti-racist’ training in North Carolina nursing schools, medical centers

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RALEIGH — Records obtained by a group of healthcare students and medical professionals have uncovered what it describes as radical and divisive racial justice training in North Carolina.

The group Do No Harm (DNH) shared the findings of a public records requests with North State Journal. Do No Harm describes itself as “a diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a moral mission: Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.”

Tucker Carlson Mentions Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry On-Air

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Tucker Carlson mentioned Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry on November 1 during his opening segment available here.

Carlson cited Perry’s findings from his 2017 blog post.

Interestingly, but not surprising, the AAMC stopped reporting the detailed data for medical school acceptance rates by MCAT, GPA and Race/Ethnicity shortly after Mark Perry started reporting it.

Exclusive: New Report Accuses UNC Medical School of Putting Politics Before Patients

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The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is putting politics before patients by forcing applicants, students, and professors to constantly prove their commitment to the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a prerequisite to advancement, rather than basing such decisions on merit alone, according to a new report from the nonprofit Do No Harm obtained exclusively by National Review.

The report from Do No Harm, a nonprofit founded to push back against the ascendant racial-equity agenda in medicine, comes just days after oral arguments in a case putting the UNC’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions system on trial. Do No Harm notes that the School of Medicine (SOM) also lists diversity — to include, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and more — as an element to be considered in its own admissions and hiring process.