In the 2023 case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that race could not be a factor in college admissions.
Ian Kingsbury of Do No Harm, an organization that represents physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers as it works to keep identity politics out of medicine, says schools' admissions processes should have become race-blind.
"Instead, you had all of these medical schools and the medical establishment publicly rebuke that decision and say … essentially, 'We're going to find a way around this,'" he details.
A recent report from Do No Harm confirms that was not an empty threat.
"It's hardest, for example, to get into medical school as an Asian applicant and much easier if you're black or Hispanic," Kingsbury relays. "It's frankly unacceptable that this is still happening."
He goes on to note that because of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the organization that oversees and organizes the medical education enterprise in the United States, many in the healthcare establishment remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism and "reject the virtue of race blindness."
They have reportedly embedded DEI principles and practices into every stage of medical education – from applying to medical schools all the way to selection into residency – and threatened to penalize those that are not "diverse enough."
Kingsbury says the ideologues and radicals that have hijacked these organizations to serve their own purpose simply do not care what the Supreme Court has to say, but he thinks this will inevitably get the attention of policymakers and judges, especially under Trump's leadership.
