After the death of George Floyd, the University of California David Geffen School of Medicine required all first-year students to take a DEI course titled “Structural Racism and Health Equity.”
This course does not provide students with insight into better suturing techniques, healing methods, disease detection, biochemistry, or other traditionally useful medical skills. Rather, its stated purpose is to equip future physicians with a “structurally competent, anti-racist perspective for viewing and treating health and disease.”
The course recently made headlines after a guest lecturer led students to chant “Free, Free Palestine” and perform pagan earth worship in celebration of the Oct. 7 Hamast terrorist attack. The content appears to be similarly provocative.
According to the course syllabus and corresponding documentation obtained Near the Washington Free Beacon, students will learn about:
- How Western society and the medical profession are allegedly racist.
- How did morbid obesity become “pathologised and medicalized in racist terms?”
- evident connection Between “disabilityism” and “hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism.”
- What can be considered the positive aspects of gender reassignment amputation.
- The clear value of abolishing prisons.
- “How Race and Class Contribute to Patients’ Ability to Access and Receive Gender-affirming Care.”and
- “The role of health workers in community organizing and protest.”
Jeffrey Fryer, former dean of Harvard Medical School, said: beacon The required course “spreads widespread and dangerous misinformation.
“This required course, centered around socialist/Marxist ideology, is completely inappropriate,” Fryer continued. “This course was truly impactful to me, having worked as a medical educator for many years.”
The slides from the first session make it clear that the aim is to transform future physicians into progressive activists.
A section titled “Our Hxstories” reportedly added:[h]Health and medical practice are deeply affected by racism and other intersecting structures of power, hierarchy, and oppression, and understanding, dismantling, and ultimately redressing these structures requires humility. , leeway, and patience are required. ”
Another document offers future doctors a list of demands to echo, including a call for Third World debt cancellation. State-controlled agricultural policy that responds to “people’s needs rather than market demands.” State control and taxation of speculative international capital flows. Assessing the gender, equity, and environmental impacts of all economic policies. And the end of “growth-centered economic theory.”
Last month, Ben Shapiro I got it. Students in the course are asked to read about the “Native Resistance” wars in which Native Americans killed thousands of white people in order to “imagine what liberation might be like.”
South African billionaire Elon Musk Said “This is a mess” in the course documentation.
The DEI emperor also told a medical student who had just been exposed for possible plagiarism. Extensive reading Marchisel Mercedes, a self-proclaimed “fat liberationist”, argues that “weight loss is a futile and hopeless endeavor” and that “the relationship between weight and health is ambiguous.”
Mercedes, a New York City-based graduate student, hints in a quasi-autobiographical rant that her distaste for morbid obesity (a term she partially censors) is rooted in racism. ing.
“This is a deeply misguided view of obesity, a complex medical disease with significant negative health consequences for all racial and ethnic groups,” Fryer said. “Promoting these ignorant ideas to medical students without countervailing input from medical experts in the field is nothing short of educational injustice.”
The former dean of Harvard Medical School stressed that whoever approved the curriculum did not deserve to make such decisions.
“There are areas where medicine and public health intersect with politics, and there needs to be debate and debate about conflicting viewpoints,” Fryer told the Beacon. “That is different from education that aims to ideologically indoctrinate physician activists.”
Glenn Beck, a nationally syndicated radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media, recently reported that the medical professional watchdog group Do No Harm found that 23 of America’s top 25 medical schools are currently ranked “As a public servant, I am providing anti-racism guidance.” core It’s part of their curriculum. ”
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