Forget anatomy or physiology: Most medical students returning to class this month are taking courses focused on social justice and diversity.
That’s the conclusion of a new study that examines the curriculum at medical schools across the country.
Future doctors spend too much time talking about political issues and less time on the medical science on which the health of people and society depends – a fact that should alarm policymakers and patients alike. the same.
My study—the first to write about the prevalence of medical school education—focused on publicly available school textbooks.
Using the US News and World Report rankings, I started with the top-ranked institutions in the country and worked my way down the list.
Although many institutions do not disclose their work, the top 20 that list their courses publicly show how political views are displacing traditional medical education.
I looked for how often the keywords appeared in the articles in each list, a widely used research technique known as “content analysis.”
Specifically, I looked for the use of eight political terms and eight scientific or medical terms that are directly related to medical education.
Think “race/racism” and “gender” compared to “chemistry” and “physiology.”
Overall, across the subject catalogs I reviewed, political terms appeared more than 2,400 times – while scientific and medical terms appeared about 1,900 times.
Of the top 10 medical schools with publicly available academic catalogs, including top-ranked Harvard Medical School, only Duke University and the University of Washington deviate from science more than politics, though not a lot.
At Stanford Medical School, emotional voices emerged even more twice often as in science – and looking at specific Stanford studies to clarify how things have gone awry.
Stanford offers a course called “Global Leaders and Innovators for Human and Planetary Health” that focuses on “environmental sustainability” and “social and environmental justice and equity.”
On the other hand, the word “obesity” does not appear once in the list of Stanford courses, even though it presents one of the biggest challenges in American life.
Baylor College of Medicine in Texas offers a “Civil Rights and Medicine” course that covers “immigration reform,” “the use of torture,” “equality issues” and “social justice issues affected by the military. ”
Judging by its list of complete lack of terms commonly used in clinical research, such as “randomized” and “placebo,” teaching medical students how to interpret — let alone conduct — research appears not the ones ahead of Baylor.
Even courses with titles that seem to address traditional medical issues have been infected with ideology, according to their definitions.
For example, Harvard Medical School offers “Integrated Human Pathophysiology” – which somehow includes topics such as “health balance” and “climate change.”
The Icahn School of Medicine catalog lists “Introduction to Anesthesiology,” which despite the title is described as “a core component of the Human Rights and Social Justice Professionals program” that “intends to provide students with an opportunity to building deep thoughts and communities around them is the work of social justice.”
It is unclear whether students also learn to administer anesthesia.
The degree to which the goals of thought are more scientific than top-ranked medical schools.
In 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges issued a credential that effectively governs what all these institutions teach.
The list of topics that medical students must master includes everything from “relationships” to “colonialism” to “systems of power, rights, and oppression.”
While non-elite schools tend to have an informal discourse today, that is certain to change over time: Activists who dictate the medical curriculum want more radicalism.
However, the stress on medical education will cause a quality problem for doctors, which is closer than Americans realize.
UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, which does not publicly explain its courses, has become known for infusing divisive politics into its courses.
According to internal documents shared with the Washington Free Beacon, the percentage of UCLA students failing standard “shelf tests” has increased, and more than half in some recent years have failed routine emergency medicine tests. childhood diseases and other important aspects.
That’s the predictable result of medical school studies on race and diversity rather than randomized controlled trials.
Also, the activists of this disturbing process are conducting their own experiments – namely, what will happen to the health of Americans when doctors without medical training try to treat them.
Jay P. Greene is a senior at Do No Harm.
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