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The medical profession’s leaders, almost without exception or dissent, now vigorously enforce this new orthodoxy of anti-racism.
Most notably, they have designed and implemented a new version of medical education explicitly grounded in ideology rather than scientific excellence. In pursuit of this project, the president of the AAMC (which accredits U.S. medical schools) and the chair of the AAMC’s Council of [Medical School] Deans stated publicly in July 2022: “We believe this topic [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] deserves just as much attention from learners and educators at every stage of their careers as the latest scientific breakthroughs.”
The AAMC’s DEI Competencies, issued in October 2021, details the new required social justice skills that medical students must acquire. In addition, the AAMC has discouraged the use of the rigorous Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) as a filter to help select medical students. Dozens of the 158 allopathic (MD granting) U.S. medical schools have made the MCAT optional. Several medical schools, including the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, have programs to admit students from designated “underrepresented” identity groups without requiring the submission of MCAT scores at all. The MCAT itself has been revised to include social justice questions that are easy to ace because the answers are always the same: structural racism is the cause of any group disparities that disfavor underrepresented groups. But even this re-engineered test shows persistent group disparities in test scores, which means that Asian applicants must score almost 4 times higher than black applicants to have an equal chance of admission.
Large discrepancies in qualifications, which endure despite strenuous efforts to dumb down the MCAT, have spawned the euphemistic practice of “holistic review” of medical school applicants, “a process that considers each applicant individually by balancing their academic metrics with experiences and attributes.” The search for a so-called “new excellence” in how medical applicants are chosen places diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core; reduces reliance on demonstrated scientific knowledge and proficiency; and emphasizes applicants’ “attitudes, values, and experiences.” Under holistic review, “it’s the journey, not the destination” that counts. (Read more.)
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