The Ideological Capture of Continuing Medical Education

Continuing Medical Education (CME) is a requirement for maintaining a license to practice medicine. Some states mandate specific content for some of the required hours, but doctors can generally choose from thousands of modules to fulfill their requirements. Ideally, CME, along with other forms of medical education, is intended to foster professional growth and enhance patient care. However, a growing number of offerings have strayed from evidence-based medicine, instead advancing political narratives—sometimes at the expense of accuracy.

This report details how the American Medical Association (AMA), a leading provider of CME, has increasingly infused its educational content with progressive ideological themes. Specifically, it observes that mentions of socially fashionable topics like “racism” or “oppression” appear more often than important innovations that doctors should be learning about, like telemedicine and gene therapy. Such obvious ideological corruption invites concern about the integrity and purpose of continuing education throughout the medical field.

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