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   From: zinn@reno.us   
      
   The University of Florida College of Medicine is scrubbing "anti-racism"   
   pages from its website in the wake of a report detailing the influence of   
   leftwing ideology on the school’s curriculum.   
      
   The report from Do No Harm, a group opposed to identity politics in   
   medical education, was released November 22 and highlighted a slew of   
   activist statements by the public medical school, many of them posted to   
   its official website. A week later—after a flurry of unflattering media   
   coverage—the College of Medicine had taken down at least three of those   
   posts, including a statement on the admissions office homepage declaring   
   that "BLACK LIVES MATTER."   
      
   That statement also condemned "systemic oppression" and touted the   
   admissions office’s commitment to "equity in healthcare." In addition, the   
   school removed a webpage that offered a list of "resources for combating   
   systemic racism," including a set of guidelines instructing "white allies"   
   to "assume racism is everywhere, every day," and a page that described the   
   school’s learning objectives related to "health equity."   
      
   Though the College of Medicine declined to comment on the removal, it did   
   offer an unsolicited defense of its admissions policies.   
      
   "We have a holistic admissions process that welcomes students from all   
   backgrounds, including those from underrepresented backgrounds," the   
   medical school’s director of communications, Cody Hawley, said. "In   
   accordance with state law, our admissions policy does not favor or give   
   priority to any group."   
      
   This is not the first time the medical establishment has backpedaled in   
   the face of public scrutiny. Brigham and Women’s Hospital distanced itself   
   last year from a proposal by two of its doctors, Bram Wispelwey and   
   Michelle Morse, to offer "preferential care" to minority patients through   
   the hospital’s cardiology service. And in January, Minnesota and Utah   
   stopped rationing COVID drugs based on race after a Washington Free Beacon   
   exposé drew attention to the practice.   
      
   Such initiatives nonetheless reflect a worldview that is being inculcated   
   at medical schools across the country. Forty-four percent of medical   
   schools now reward scholarship on "diversity, inclusion, and equity"   
   through their promotion policies, according to a report this month by the   
   Association of American Medical Colleges, while 70 percent mandate courses   
   on "diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence." The report also found   
   that over a third of medical schools offer extra funding to departments   
   that hit diversity goals, with half requiring diversity statements for job   
   applicants.   
      
   The University of Florida College of Medicine is a microcosm of these   
   trends. The school’s now-deleted list of anti-racism resources included   
   How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, who says that the "only remedy   
   to present discrimination is future discrimination"—a view that would   
   appear to license the sort of discriminatory policies that Utah and   
   Minnesota eventually scrapped.   
      
   In addition, the school expects all students to follow a "Code of Ethics"   
   that includes "speaking out against social injustice, racism, prejudice,   
   and inequity," and requires hiring committees to complete diversity   
   trainings created by the Racial Equity Institute, which states that "all   
   of our systems, institutions and outcomes emanate from the racial   
   hierarchy on which the United States was built."   
      
   That focus on progressive programming extends to the university as a   
   whole. The public university has a "Center for Inclusion and Multicultural   
   Engagement," a department on "multicultural and diversity affairs," and an   
   entire website on anti-racism. Its library alone sports 11 "diversity,   
   equity, and inclusion" officers who oversee "justice related trainings"   
   and curate a collection of "anti-racist resources" for the university.   
      
   The school’s progressive apparatchiks have gotten it in trouble before:   
   The university library had to rename its largest study space, named "The   
   Karl Marx Study Room" since 2014, in March 2022 amid public outcry.   
      
   Do No Harm is chaired by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a Washington Free Beacon   
   enthusiast and the father of Free Beacon chairman Michael Goldfarb.   
      
   Published under: Discrimination, Diversity, Florida, woke   
      
   https://freebeacon.com/campus/uf-medical-school-scrubs-web-pages-of-woke-   
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