The Association of American Medical Colleges praised U.S. medical schools for their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, in a new report that detailed nationwide efforts at the colleges to implement diversity programs.
The report, released earlier this month, said that all 101 participating medical schools had implemented diversity initiatives in their admissions practices, and the vast majority of senior administrators at those schools had expressed support for DEI.
“Assessing policies, practices, and programs at the institutional level — and identifying and sharing innovative practices — is a first step toward ensuring that academic medicine is well-positioned to attract, promote, and retain a diverse health professions workforce,” Alison Whelan, the chief academic officer at the AAMC, said.
While the report offered most medical schools high marks for their commitment to diversity, the association expressed displeasure on several fronts that it saw as diversity efforts falling short. The report noted that only 48.5% of schools publicly shared student demographic data, and a third of medical schools did not outline goals for achieving their DEI goals.
The conservative medical watchdog group Do No Harm was critical of the report, which it said indicated the AAMC had slipped further down a road of political correctness and progressive ideology.that the association's emphasis on racial diversity over merit and excellence poses"a real risk for the American people" who rely on competent doctors to guide their health decisions.
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