Association of American Medical Colleges Releases Official DEI Curriculum Standards
National Association of Scholars | John D. Sailor
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) just released its official DEI Competencies. As John D. Sailor argues, “In practice, the competencies are likely to elicit a wave of highly dubious medical curricula—to say nothing of medical research… [they] will hamper free expression, politicize medical education, encourage physicians to engage in misbegotten activism, and…lead to substantively harmful policies. We should hope that students and faculty alike speak up and reject them.”
With the initial draft, Sailor explains that “numerous critics spoke up, noting how the competencies would function as an obvious threat to academic freedom and, more broadly, sound medical education.” Criticism was not heeded.
“In their op-ed introducing the competencies,” reports Sailor, “the president of the AAMC and the chair of the AAMC’s Council of Deans emphatically stated their support: ‘We believe this topic deserves just as much attention from learners and educators at every stage of their careers as the latest scientific breakthroughs’—a truly remarkable statement of priorities from the leaders of America’s foremost medical education association.”
Related: The AAMC Prescribes a Daily Dose of DEI (NAS, 7/17/22)
