Monday 5 September 2022 07:52 PM Experts SLAM leading medical schools in the US for valuing 'wokeism' trends now
Leading United States medical schools are beginning to value 'wokeism' instead of teaching and preparing the next generation of doctors, experts warn.
Dr Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist at the University of Pennsylvania and often-critic of woke values in the medical field, penned an op-ed for the New York Post warning that many of the nation's leading medical schools are screening prospective students for progressive beliefs before they do for actual medical talent.
He highlights top programs at Harvard Medical School, Columbia University, Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and others asking applicants to answer questions about their understanding of racism, social and political issues - and how they will contribute towards progressivism in their studies.
Goldfarb has previously warned that wokeism is having an effect on the way medical schools recruit students. In June, he blew the whistle that five leading U.S. medical schools had policies in place that could harm white students' ability to get into them.
Harvard University Medical School, the top ranked institute in America, asks students to share how minority cultures, races, sexual orientations may have barriers to access medical education
Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians, ranked third in America, asks students how their life experiences can help the school's commitment to diversity
'Elite medical schools are deliberately recruiting woke activists, jeopardizing their mission of training physicians,' Goldfarb said.
He reviewed the top 50 medical schools as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, one of the most respected lists of college standings in the nation.
Of that group, he found that a massive portion had questions that gauged what he described as 'woke concepts'.
'Across these medical schools, there is now a default assumption that applicants understand and accept the tenets of woke ideology,' he said.
America's top ranked medical school is at Harvard, in Boston, Massachusetts. He says that the school asks applicants to share how minority cultures, races, sexual orientations may have barriers to access medical
