In the latest outrageous virtue signaling in academia, Campus Reform is reporting Drexel University’s College of Medicine is pushing an ‘Antiracism in Healthcare’ module for medical students that a conservative organization accuses of “prioritizing ideological indoctrination over scientific inquiry.”
Medicine was never meant to be a place for social experiments and virtue signaling.
According to Campus Reform, “The module, which appears on the college’s website, promises to teach students to ‘explain how structural, cultural, and individual racism have shaped our common history and have led to vast societal disparities in education, policing, wealth and healthcare, and to “commit to being antiracist in your attitudes and behaviors.’”
This seems to bear little relevance to actually practicing medicine, a field where any sort of politics or ideology should not play a role.
One section of this module even makes the outlandish claim that “structural racism accounts for health disparities.”
In other words, now people getting sick is also a result of racism according to Left-wing ideology.
“Perhaps the great majority of healthcare providers would deny that they are racist or let biases influence their patient care,” the module says.
“Yet there are great disparities in healthcare and health outcomes between racial groups. Certainly, structural racism accounts for many of these disparities.”
Another section of this module is focused on the canon of woke ideology, CRT, or critical race theory.
According to this absurd theory, race is a social construct and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice but has become structural.”
“Do No Harm, a conservative nonprofit organization that advocates for removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from medicine, criticized the Drexel module for valuing an identity-based ideology over science.”
Hellbound and Down 