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Forty-four percent of medical schools have tenure and promotion policies that promote teaching about “diversity, inclusion and equity.” Seventy percent of students take the “diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency” course. And 79 percent demand that all hiring committees receive “unconscious interest” training or include “equity advisors,” people whose job it is to ensure diversity among resources.

These are some of the findings from a new report by the Association of American Medical Colleges, which along with the American Medical Association accredits schools in the United States. The report, “The Power of Collective Action: Assessing and Advancing the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts of AAMC Medical Schools” in a survey of 10 medical school deans, showing that nearly two-thirds of American medical schools – who have given the data. He asked for a list of the different plans that they had completed.

The results paint a clear portrait of ideological capture: In many medical schools, concerns about social justice saturate every layer of institutional decision-making, especially the hiring and admissions process, the tendency of some doctors to undermine meritocracy and risk to patients.

The report indicates that more than one-third of medical schools offer extra funding to departments that hit diversity targets, half require auditors to submit diversity declarations, and over two-thirds “require departments/units to assemble a diverse pool of candidates for faculty positions.”

In addition, every school reported a “holistic admissions” process — a euphemism for affirmative action, which lowers applicants’ grades and test scores in light of their race, the academic bar for “medically underrepresented” groups.

“We’re dealing with life and death here,” said Jeff Singer, the surgeon general from Arizona. “I want to know that my doctor got his degree because they are smart and know what they are doing.”

The report, released on November 10th, comes in an annual effort by the Association of American Medical Colleges to inject “diversity, equity and inclusion” into the accreditation process. A year ago, the group outlined what it called a “malign narrative” of meritocracy, a view critics said at the time would be to lower standards and put lives at risk. And in July, it required all medical schools to incorporate lessons on “diversity, equity and inclusion” into their curricula, saying they “impart a critical understanding of unjust systems of oppression.”

The survey seems to have been part of that campaign. All schools that achieved that increase received their DEI effort, which did not fulfill any of the plans identified as “areas for growth.” One of the best uses of the information, the report said, is for schools to demonstrate that they meet “the accreditation requirements of DEI.”

Sensing the urgency of those demands, medical schools have submitted standards for all students, even top-scorers, to avert a scenario in which dropout rates explode. “Once you’re in a cohort of competing students, the entire curriculum is calculated,” said Stanley Goldfarb, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Washington Free Beacon a fanatic and a father Book Beacon President Michael Goldfarb. “So everyone goes through at a much smoother pace.”

Several teachers also expressed concern about mandating the DEI curriculum, which they said would leave less time for other, more essential subjects.

“If you’re bleeding from a gunshot wound, you need a doctor who knows how to save your life, not someone who can tell you about complications,” said Laura Morgan, a nurse in Dallas, Texas, who lost her. job at a teaching hospital, Baylor Scott & White Health, after he refused, in a recent diversity training, to claim that all white men were racist.

The Association of American Medical Colleges said the Book Beacon supports all the policies listed in the report, arguing that it “contributes to a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture and climate for students, faculty, staff and administrators”.

“Our partner must commit to medical schools and teaching hospitals to address the factors that drive racism and bias toward health,” said David Acosta, the group’s chief diversity officer.

Not all of these methods are entirely new. “Culturally responsive care,” which requires doctors to take stock of patients’ values ​​and education, has been a staple of medical education since the 1970s, Goldfarb and Singer said, and — in moderation — is appropriate for teaching.

But, Goldfarb added, that’s a far cry from requiring comprehensive courses in “cultural competency.”

“This can all be done in two lessons,” Goldfarb said. “The problem is that it inevitably expands.”

The report suggests that medical schools are devoting significant time and energy to their diversity initiatives. In addition to changing the curriculum and hiring process, 75 percent of medical schools surveyed advocated for legislation to “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and 81 percent changed “communications, signage, icons, or displays that may be perceived as noninclusive.”

Schools are also collecting detailed demographic data on their faculty members and students—an apparently neutral practice geared toward ideological ends. Hiring groups often keep track of promotion opportunities by race and gender, report marks, then use that information to “maintain equity in promotion decisions.”

All told, 85 percent of schools said they would use “demographic data to promote change within the institution.”

Finally, the relationship implies that the number should be 100 percent. Medical schools are to “create a holistic plan where DEI is integrated into all operations and mission areas,” the report says. “The findings in this report prompt further exploration of how effective DEI practices can be integrated into the entire infrastructure of medical schools.”