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Nearly half of U.S. medical schools continue to operate diversity, equity and inclusion offices in defiance of Trump administration policies, a new report says.
The conservative physician advocacy group Do No Harm flagged 43.5% of the nation’s 154 accredited medical programs, or 67, for maintaining their DEI offices as of last month.
That was down slightly from 79 in February. That month, the Department of Education gave universities receiving federal funds 14 days to end race-based policies, programs and practices.
“To eliminate DEI’s divisive influence in medicine, we must recognize medical schools that focus on excellence and expose those that promote political activism,” Ian Kingsbury, director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, said in a statement.
The group’s new Medical School Excellence Index graded all 154 programs on whether they have lowered academic standards to boost the number of underrepresented racial minorities training as doctors.
Among the 28 institutions that received an F, the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine exhibited the worst combination of strong DEI commitments, low Medical College Admission Test scores and subpar grade-point averages, it said.
The next worst were the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, and Oregon Health and Science University College of Medicine.
“UC Davis is arguably the most ideologically extreme medical school in the country, or at least unparalleled in candor about prioritizing identity box checking over excellence,” Mr. Kingsbury wrote on page 11 of the report. “Meanwhile, OHSU practices racial separatism and racial discrimination, New Mexico judges residency applicants based on their commitment to ‘anti-racism,’ and Central Michigan continues to operate a DEI office in contravention of President Trump’s executive order.”
Most of the lowest-ranked medical schools did not respond to a request for comment. --->READ MORE HERE
I’m cheering President Trump’s rollback of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from the other side of the world. In fact, the main reason I am a medical resident in Tokyo — having arrived last month — is that DEI made it harder to pursue my career in the U.S.
Qualified people like myself have been pushed away by this race-based ideology, which not only insults me but injures America.
I wish I was home in the U.S. I was born in New York City. I attended City College. As an undergraduate, I served as an EMT on an ambulance and as a medic in ROTC. When I took the Medical College Admission Test, I scored in the 90th percentile, with a near-perfect score in each of the three science sections — biology, chemistry and physics, and psychology and sociology.
I had every intention of entering medical practice in the U.S., where I hoped to stay my entire career. But DEI got in the way.
It first reared its ugly head when, despite my Medical College Admission Test scores and experience, only one medical school accepted me of the 75 I applied to — the University of Tennessee. Only three other schools even offered to interview me, almost certainly reflecting the unfair standard to which Asians are held thanks to DEI.
I accepted the slot at Tennessee, figuring it would still be the springboard I needed for my career. But the DEI shenanigans were just getting started.
In 2022, I was part of the first class of medical students who took the revised “Step 1” test under the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, which plays a big role in determining where students get their residencies. Before, medical students had been given a numerical score, clearly indicating our knowledge level relative to our peers. Activists, however, successfully demanded that this be changed to a pass-fail, all in the name of diversity. --->READ MORE HERE
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