A quick mental exercise…
You’re in the hospital for a serious procedure. The anesthesiologist hits you with the gas. And right before you go under, the surgeon whispers to you oh so quietly: “don’t worry, I’ve completed my anti-racism training; privilege, allyship —the whole nine. You’re in good hands.”
That a deal breaker for you? Because 23 of the top 25 medical schools now require Critical Race Theory training. Every doctor should either feel guilty or oppressed —it can only help.
According to the Washington Examiner, “The list of prestigious medical schools incorporating critical race theory includes internationally renowned schools, such as Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan Medical School.”
The database criticalrace.org says Johns Hopkins mandates its CRT training (mandates are so hot right now). In September 2020, JHU announced “all faculty, students, trainees, postdocs and fellows will be required to complete a virtual training session on unconscious bias. It will be followed by anti-racism and then bystander intervention training.”
At Yale, the Department of Psychiatry’s Anti-Racism Task Force’s Education Subcommittee “is charged with addressing the legacy of racism on training, increasing the representation of BIPOC individuals, anti-racism training efforts, social justice and healthy equity curricula, and interfacing with the clinical subcommittee regarding the clinical context of training,” according to CriticalRace.org’s findings.
At UCLA, more of the same. The medical school requires “community members” to complete an “annual subset of anti-racism trainings,” as well as “provide resources and education” to the medical school community “on critical topics of privilege, allyship and dialogue, encouraging self reflection, self-awareness and a shared sense of responsibility for advancing social justice in science, medicine and health care,” according to the Examiner.
William Jacobson, the creator of the criticalrace.org database, and a law professor at Cornell Law School, told Fox News that “the racialization of medical school education is troubling” and that it was “one thing to recognize the health needs of different populations,” but it was “entirely different to inject racial politics into medical care.”
“Demanding that medical school students become activists is dangerous,” Jacobson said. “The mantra of the so-called ‘antiracism’ movement has no place in medicine. Current racial discrimination in order to remedy past racial discrimination is wrong generally, but is downright dangerous in medicine.”
Agree. I think we should stick with the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm.
“First, remember your privilege” — not quite as catchy.
