Activism Over Meritocracy: How the Association of American Medical Colleges Is Corrupting Medical Education With Endless DEI Ideology

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has enjoyed almost 150 years of influence over medical education in North America. What began as an annual meeting among deans to discuss how to improve the quality of instruction in medical schools has transformed into a titanic bureaucracy. The current day AAMC enjoys an enormous degree of control over the entire medical education enterprise.

The power that the AAMC holds over academic medicine largely stems from the medical
schools themselves. Prospective physicians must engage with the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT®), the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS®), and graduate medical education (residency) processes to achieve their goals of becoming MDs. Additionally, the AAMC is increasingly exerting influence over the osteopathic education system and attempting to infuse it with the same ideological agenda that has swamped the MD-granting (allopathic) education structure. These efforts are all rooted in the AAMC’s belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a critical core competency.

The AAMC also advances its agenda through advocacy and policy, with a heavy emphasis on medical school admissions. Within moments of the announcement, the organization expressed its disappointment with the landmark Supreme Court decisions restricting race-based university admissions. The AAMC increasingly champions “holistic review” admissions, which consider “experiences” and “attributes” ahead of traditional academic metrics and can often be a proxy for considering race.

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