Brown University Medical School Places More Importance on DEI Than ‘Clinical Skills’ for New Hires
“Doctors who reviewed the criteria were alarmed, saying they reflect an unusually frank admission that merit is taking a back seat to DEI.”

Brown University is currently facing a massive deficit. Maybe this is one the reasons why.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Brown Medical School Gives DEI More Weight Than ‘Clinical Skills’ in Promotion Criteria for Faculty
Brown University Medical School now gives “diversity, equity, and inclusion” more weight than “excellent clinical skills” in its promotion criteria for faculty, raising questions about the quality of teaching and patient care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply DEI has penetrated medical education.
The criteria, which are posted on Brown’s website and have not been previously reported, list a “demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion” as a “major criterion” for all positions within the Department of Medicine, which oversees the bulk of the school’s clinical units. Clinical skills, by contrast, only count as a “minor criterion” for many roles.
Doctors who reviewed the criteria were alarmed, saying they reflect an unusually frank admission that merit is taking a back seat to DEI.
“This is as stark as it gets,” said Bob Cirincione, an orthopedic surgeon in Hagerstown, Maryland. The criteria “say what DEI in medical schools is all about. And it’s not about clinical performance.”
Hector Chapa, a clinical professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine, said it was “difficult to comprehend” why clinical skills get less weight than DEI. “That is heartbreaking,” Chapa told the Washington Free Beacon. “Clinical skills are of paramount importance and should be considered major criteria for any promotion.”
The criteria, which were last updated in 2023, indicate that DEI gets more weight than clinical skills for positions focused on research and classroom teaching. It gets the same weight as “patient care” for doctors who train students in clinical settings.
A university spokesman, Brian Clark, declined to comment on the criteria but noted that they apply only to the Department of Medicine—whose 11 divisions include cardiology, oncology, and primary care—not to the medical school as a whole.

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Easy — issue them licenses to practice on Democrats only.
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Brown University Medical School. Let that acronym speak for itself. Clinical skills *are* the most important facet of the integrated art and science of medicine, not some bullsquat DEI nonsense. We take an oath to treat all patients equally, regardless of who they are—so that isn’t even a consideration.
It’s called an “aptronym.”
OHSU ranked about in the middle for clinical performance but was #1 in DEI. Decades ago they started to base their new hires on box checking and that has come home to roost. They recruited faculty unable to obtain funding and now are in a huge crisis. Once that death spiral starts it gets much worse very fast. Every medical science discipline depends on the presence of associated expertise for collaboration, and as the pool of good collaborators decreases, so does the quality of those they are trying to recruit.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/05/ohsus-brian-druker-on-morale-cost-cutting-and-the-plan-to-acquire-legacy-health/
The worst part is that they are “State Run” and are starting to absorb all of the other medical facilities other than Kaiser. We are fast approaching a day where your politics will determine your medical outcome. I refer everyone to “The Death of Stalin” for a view of this future.
I am sure those running the asylum see this as just the successful elimination of another old white guy. And the new person to head the operation will be the best lesbian for the job.
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