Medical School Module at Drexel U. Makes ‘Antiracism’ and CRT Part of Doctors’ Ethical Duty

Medical School Module at Drexel U. Makes ‘Antiracism’ and CRT Part of Doctors’ Ethical Duty

Remember when almost everyone on the left insisted that no one is teaching Critical Race Theory?

Campus Reform reports:

Drexel med school module makes ‘antiracism’ and CRT part of doctors’ ethical duty

Drexel University’s College of Medicine pushes an “Antiracism in Healthcare” module for medical students that a conservative organization accuses of “prioritizing ideological indoctrination over scientific inquiry.”

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.”

One module section, titled “Medicine and the Myth of Race,” pushes the idea that structural racism accounts for health disparities.

“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.”

The module provides examples such as “policies that have affected access to care, insurance coverage, biases in hiring and lending that suppress earning potential of people of color and much more.”

Another section in the module is dedicated to “Critical Race Theory” or “CRT,” which, the college says, asserts that “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.

“Drexel University College of Medicine’s ‘Antiracism in Healthcare’ program relies on disproven theories and discriminatory ideas,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, Do No Harm’s Director of Medicine, told Campus Reform in an email Monday. “The school’s effort to present ideological indoctrination as medical education is unacceptable and dangerous.”

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