Across the United States, race-based discrimination and the negative and divisive tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are infiltrating American medical schools and accrediting boards. Characteristics such as skin color and adherence to DEI ideology are being prioritized above student qualifications. The ability and education of America’s newest physicians, and the health of our nation’s future patients, will perilously atrophy, unless something changes.
Just last week, during a mandatory course on “structural racism” for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), a guest speaker led chants of “Free, Free Palestine” and referred to the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Jews as “justice.” She then demanded that students bow down to “Mama Earth” and led what she described as a “non-secular prayer” to “the ancestors.” In the mandatory first-year course, “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” the aspiring medical doctors were told that modern medicine is “white science” and asked to stand for a second so-called prayer against the “occupation” of “Turtle Island” — i.e., the United States.
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