The College Fix, which noticed the job listing for the University of California Davis Health Center, reports it has yet to get a comment from the university for its story.
Matt Lamb, associate editor for The College Fix, tells AFN the med school was asked what weight mandatory DEI beliefs are given in the hiring process.
“The most important qualities for a surgeon, a surgical professor,” he argues, “should be their skill as a surgeon, their knowledge of surgery, their time spent as a surgeon."
That is not a priority in the university's job search for a Health Science Clinical Professor. The story points out a “Statement of Teaching” and a “Statement of Research” are listed as “optional” under the job application instructions. Meanwhile, right under those optional job references the application requires a “Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”
Those “contributions” will be used to evaluate applicants, the job listing plainly states, with an online link at UC Davis about the guidelines and purposes for writing a statement.
For its UC Davis story, the Fix sought comment from Do No Harm, a medical group that opposes DEI’s intrusion in the medical field.
“The key to being a good surgical oncologist is having vast knowledge about how to treat cancer,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told the Fix. “That and a strong ethical sense should be the only requirements. A surgical oncologist’s political ideas are irrelevant to his or her ability to treat patients.”
