Vanderbilt U. Dermatology Residents Receive Anti-Racism Training
“engage in perspective-taking to minimize bias and stereotyping when interacting with patients and physicians of color”
If this trend in the study of medicine is not squashed, we will eventually regret it as a nation.
Campus Reform reports:
Vanderbilt holds anti-racism training for dermatology residents
One of the nation’s premier universities promoting “anti-racism” in its medical school programming.
On Sept. 26 and 27, dermatology residents at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) completed the “Curriculum for Advancing Racial Equity” (CARE) designed by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).
The CARE program aims to fulfill a number of learning objectives relating to anti-racism, such as helping medical personnel “recognize and address racial microaggressions aimed at patients and physicians of color.”
The program also seeks to help health care professionals “engage in perspective-taking to minimize bias and stereotyping when interacting with patients and physicians of color,” and “investigate and address the impact of clinical and administrative actions that produce adverse effects for people of color.”
The Vanderbilt workshop featured discussions focused on “structural racism, implicit bias, strategies to minimize bias when interacting with patients and physicians of color, identity and privilege, racial microaggressions, and institutional racism in health care,” according to VUMC News.
AAD launched the CARE program in 2021 at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
VUMC’s decision to employ the CARE curriculum comes in the wake of similar, recent initiatives to center its medical research and education around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology.
In 2021, VUMC established the Diversity Liaison Committee, whose goals include “enhancing and fostering a culture that promotes the engagement, growth and retention of diverse faculty, scientists, staff and trainees.”
It primarily pursues these objectives by aiming to “develop strategies to enhance and support diversity and inclusion” and “ensure that [its] department is fully engaged in anti-racism training and development of a racial equity climate survey.”
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That training is now de rigeur for all residency and even some fellowship programs (if they haven’t had it in residency) in the United States. Welcome to post-2019 medical training, people. Any wonder why I left being active clinical faculty?
Since when does skin color have ANY bearing on dermatology?
… Never mind.
Try to get a dermatology appointment at VUMC and see how far in the future it has to be. I needed to get something checked back in May and the first available appointment was December. I had to go a non-VUMC provider for this.
Perhaps if they weren’t wasting time on this the residents could be seeing patients.
“If this trend in the study of medicine is not squashed, we will eventually regret it as a nation.”
Too late. Affirmative action, COVID fraud, rampant wokeness… The medical profession in the United States has been totally destroyed.
I wrote elsewhere how my local medical school went on a DEI hiring binge to even up the faculty distribution (males need not apply) and now they are stuck with a bunch of dead weight incapable of obtaining Federal grant support. No grants means no pre-post doctoral support so now the grad program is collapsing. No indirect cost monies means no administrative support so higher tuitions in the professional programs. They never see the start of the death spiral until it is too late.