Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm, says it is disappointing that more than 70 medical schools continue to reinforce this "ideological overreach," ignoring the president's executive orders, the Department of Education's directive, and a "Dear Colleague" letter.
"It prioritizes an ideology over merit, enforces group-based thinking, stifles open debate, and really engages in unlawful discrimination," he asserts. "It's those types of programs that need to end. Institutions really need to cease using race preferences and stereotypes as a condition of hiring or admissions."
AFN recently reported that the University of Connecticut has required first-year medical students to recite a politically-charged version of the Hippocratic Oath.
Harvard University claims the Trump administration is violating its First Amendment rights and the Administrative Procedure Act by attempting to control academic decision-making with his DEI orders, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," and "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing."
Dr. Miceli, however, says America needs to return to the fundamental principles of focusing on merit and quality – not race or gender – to achieve excellence in education, healthcare, and other crafts.
10 of the 70+ schools listed on the tracker "are moving in the right direction" and have at least removed their DEI offices from their websites, but Dr. Miceli hopes they will be removed from existence.
Do No Harm's tracker is based on online research into the nation's medical schools. Anyone with tips about programs, grants, processes, and/or scholarships at institutions of higher education using race as a factor is encouraged to submit them to the organization, whose aim is to keep identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.
