I don't find this shocking at all

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"Medical school coursework appears to be much more concerned with conveying ideological goals to future doctors than with teaching them how to interpret, let alone conduct, scientific research," Do No Harm concluded.

Among the highest-ranked institutions Do No Harm studied, seven had more politicized than scientific terms printed in their course catalogs: Harvard, UPenn, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Icahn School of Medicine, Baylor, and Emory.

Do No Harm discovered that this divisive ideology is infused into introductory classes covering basic topics. For example, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Introduction to Anesthesiology" is described as "a core component of the Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars (HRSJ) program for first-year medical students" and "is intended to provide students with a space for building critical thinking and community around social justice work."

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At Harvard Medical School, a course on Integrated Human Pathophysiology "focuses on key concepts in normal physiology and pathophysiology of the kidney, endocrine and reproductive endocrine systems." However, content that "explores health equity" and "climate change" is also "integrated."

Meanwhile, Stanford offers a course called "Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab" that centers on "environmental sustainability" as well as "social and environmental justice and equality."

The Baylor College of Medicine's class on "Human Rights and Medicine" covers "immigration reform," "gender issues," "cross-cultural considerations," and "issues of distributive justice affected by militarization in society."

I’m not shocked because we’ve been hearing about this sort of nonsense for some time now. Here’s an example, from earlier this May:

Almost HALF Of UCLA Medical Students Fail Basic Competency Tests, Professors Say Aggressive DEI Policies Are To Blame

Nearly half of all students at UCLA’s medical school, [once] known as one of the best in the world, fail basic tests of medical competence, a new report has revealed. Many are attributing the school’s fall from grace to its agressive acceptance of less-qualified minority candidates.

The report, released today by the Washington Free Beacon, stated that the rates of failure on “shelf” exams (standardized tests that cover a number of issues including emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and other specializations), have increased tenfold at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine since 2022.

A number of professors, members of staff, and members of the admissions committee, spoke anonymously with the Free Beacon. One professor told the outlet that a student failed to identify a major artery, and then shouted at them for even asking them the question to begin with. Another claimed that students at the end of their medical rotation couldn’t even comprehend basic lab tests, or present patients.

“I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,” the professor said. “Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.”

The blame for the failures has been attributed to the arrival of Jennifer Lucero as the Dean of Admissions in 2020. Lucero allegedly prioritized the admission Black and Latino admissions over white and Asian applicants, rather than basing acceptance on competency. This practice has been occurring even though California has explicitly banned public schools from considering race on admissions since 1996.

Not so long ago, patients were suspicious of entrusting their healthcare to doctors with foreign medical degrees: now, they should probably insist on it.