https://freebeacon.com/campus/advocacy-workshops-anti-racist-audits-inside-a-top-medical-schools-radical-curriculum-overhaul/
Theres much much more in the article. Id suggest if your doctor is a recently graduate of this school, you get a new doctor.
It is insane that this curriculum is considered acceptable by any school. Especially a medical school.
There are quotes in the article from staff who see how big a problem this is but are afraid to speak out. Hopefully they will feel more emboldened to now that this neo Marxist worldview is on the back foot and popular opinion is starting to work against it.
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Advocacy Workshops, Anti-Racist Audits: Inside a Top Medical School's Radical Curriculum Overhaul
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In a mandatory six-week unit on "Justice and Advocacy in Medicine," which covers "issues like racism, ableism, and patriarchy," the school told first-year medical students this year that the protest on the bridge was an example of "direct action," akin to "sit-ins" or "vigils," that disrupt "business as usual" to "pressure targeted decision-makers."
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Held the first week of October 2024, the workshop referred students to the "Queering Reproductive Justice Toolkit," promoted an "abolitionist approach to antiracist medical education," and referenced the "Settler-Colonial Determinants of Health." It was led by Yalda Sharam, an associate professor of medicine, whose bio on UCSF's website quotes the Marxist educators Angela Davis and Paulo Freire.
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Instructors are grilled on whether their materials "disrupt oppression" or "falsely equate[] body size with health," according to a "curricular review" tool obtained by the Free Beacon. Students sit through lectures on "white supremacy," "structural trauma," and the "medical industrial complex," defined as a web of health care institutions that perpetuate "transphobia and ableism."
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The unit takes up six full weeks of classmore than the amount of time spent on basic anatomy or cardiovascular health, according to UCSF's summary of the first-year curriculumand describes "objectivity" and "urgency" as characteristics of "white supremacy culture."
In one slide deck presented as part of the course, UCSF says students should "consider reporting" those traits, though it does not indicate to whom. The characteristics of white supremacy culture also include "individualism" and "perfectionism," according to the slides, which depict each trait as a bottle of poison.
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When medical students staged a protest of Israel's war in Gaza, chants of "intifada" could be heard from UCSF hospital rooms, according to the New York Times. Doctors have worn pro-Palestinian pins while interacting with patientssome of whom requested they be removedand attacked pro-Israel colleagues online.
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UCSF also uses an 11-page checklist to review courses for "harmful" content. Examples include "stigmatizing language," "anti-fat bias," and the inconsistent use of they/them pronouns. A supplementary guide instructs professors to "replace gendered terms with gender neutral language," in part by swapping "pregnant women" with "pregnant people" and "erections in men" with just "erections."
Theres much much more in the article. Id suggest if your doctor is a recently graduate of this school, you get a new doctor.
It is insane that this curriculum is considered acceptable by any school. Especially a medical school.
There are quotes in the article from staff who see how big a problem this is but are afraid to speak out. Hopefully they will feel more emboldened to now that this neo Marxist worldview is on the back foot and popular opinion is starting to work against it.
