The University of Florida College of Medicine is scrubbing "anti-racism"
pages from its website in the wake of a report detailing the influence of
leftwing ideology on the school�s curriculum.

The report from Do No Harm, a group opposed to identity politics in
medical education, was released November 22 and highlighted a slew of
activist statements by the public medical school, many of them posted to
its official website. A week later�after a flurry of unflattering media
coverage�the College of Medicine had taken down at least three of those
posts, including a statement on the admissions office homepage declaring
that "BLACK LIVES MATTER."

That statement also condemned "systemic oppression" and touted the
admissions office�s commitment to "equity in healthcare." In addition, the
school removed a webpage that offered a list of "resources for combating
systemic racism," including a set of guidelines instructing "white allies"
to "assume racism is everywhere, every day," and a page that described the
school�s learning objectives related to "health equity."

Though the College of Medicine declined to comment on the removal, it did
offer an unsolicited defense of its admissions policies.

"We have a holistic admissions process that welcomes students from all
backgrounds, including those from underrepresented backgrounds," the
medical school�s director of communications, Cody Hawley, said. "In
accordance with state law, our admissions policy does not favor or give
priority to any group."

This is not the first time the medical establishment has backpedaled in
the face of public scrutiny. Brigham and Women�s Hospital distanced itself
last year from a proposal by two of its doctors, Bram Wispelwey and
Michelle Morse, to offer "preferential care" to minority patients through
the hospital�s cardiology service. And in January, Minnesota and Utah
stopped rationing COVID drugs based on race after a Washington Free Beacon
expos� drew attention to the practice.

Such initiatives nonetheless reflect a worldview that is being inculcated
at medical schools across the country. Forty-four percent of medical
schools now reward scholarship on "diversity, inclusion, and equity"
through their promotion policies, according to a report this month by the
Association of American Medical Colleges, while 70 percent mandate courses
on "diversity, inclusion, or cultural competence." The report also found
that over a third of medical schools offer extra funding to departments
that hit diversity goals, with half requiring diversity statements for job
applicants.

The University of Florida College of Medicine is a microcosm of these
trends. The school�s now-deleted list of anti-racism resources included
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, who says that the "only remedy
to present discrimination is future discrimination"�a view that would
appear to license the sort of discriminatory policies that Utah and
Minnesota eventually scrapped.

In addition, the school expects all students to follow a "Code of Ethics"
that includes "speaking out against social injustice, racism, prejudice,
and inequity," and requires hiring committees to complete diversity
trainings created by the Racial Equity Institute, which states that "all
of our systems, institutions and outcomes emanate from the racial
hierarchy on which the United States was built."

That focus on progressive programming extends to the university as a
whole. The public university has a "Center for Inclusion and Multicultural
Engagement," a department on "multicultural and diversity affairs," and an
entire website on anti-racism. Its library alone sports 11 "diversity,
equity, and inclusion" officers who oversee "justice related trainings"
and curate a collection of "anti-racist resources" for the university.

The school�s progressive apparatchiks have gotten it in trouble before:
The university library had to rename its largest study space, named "The
Karl Marx Study Room" since 2014, in March 2022 amid public outcry.

Do No Harm is chaired by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a Washington Free Beacon
enthusiast and the father of Free Beacon chairman Michael Goldfarb.

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