UConn School of Medicine Drops Mandatory ‘DEI-Infused’ Hippocratic Oath
“This is a huge victory for students’ freedom of speech and conscience at UConn”
Getting social justice out of the study and practice of medicine should be a top priority.
The College Fix reports:
UConn med school drops mandatory ‘DEI-infused’ Hippocratic Oath
The University of Connecticut School of Medicine will no longer require students to recite its Hippocratic Oath that pledges support for social justice and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote in a post on X Tuesday that the school confirmed its “DEI-infused” oath is optional and “students will not be punished for refusing to recite it.”
“This is a huge victory for students’ freedom of speech and conscience at UConn,” the free speech group wrote.
“UConn’s medical students can now rest assured that they needn’t sacrifice their ideas or beliefs to practice medicine. Forced ideological oaths have no place on campus, and FIRE will continue to fight against compelled speech,” FIRE Program Counsel Ross Marchand stated.
The change follows a letter FIRE sent to the school in January, demanding that it make the oath optional.
The letter states that the oath compels students to affirm political viewpoints, which they may not agree with, “as a condition of their education.”
“While UConn may encourage students to adopt the views contained in the oath, the First Amendment bars the university from requiring them to do so. The First Amendment protects not only the right to speak but the right to refrain from speaking,” the letter states.
Today @UConn School of Medicine confirmed to FIRE that its DEI-infused Hippocratic Oath is optional and students will not be punished for refusing to recite it. This is a huge victory for students’ freedom of speech and conscience at UConn. https://t.co/xYOXQOuZXB
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) April 1, 2025
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How about firing the admins who made it a requirement in the first place.
Too late. The credibility of the so-called “medical profession” has long since been destroyed. There isn’t one of them I would trust to put a Band-Aid on a paper cut.
Four months from now:
“Nobody ever forced you to take it.”