Americans just won what could be their biggest victory against DEI. But no one knows.
As of March 19, America’s medical schools are finally free to leave this discriminatory and dangerous ideology behind. The organization that oversees them – the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) – has quietly dropped its mandate that medical schools indoctrinate future physicians. This matters because DEI has dramatically deteriorated medical education, endangering the health of every American. Now medical schools can finally do what they’re supposed to do: train the best doctors who provide the best care.
It is difficult to overstate the significance of this victory given the stakes for American health. The unfortunate truth is that DEI has thoroughly corrupted medical education. I have documented this phenomenon goes back almost a decaderevealing how future physicians are forced to learn about systemic racism, implicit bias, and a host of social problems that doctors cannot solve. Every minute medical students spend on these topics prevents them from learning real clinical skills and science – that is, the tools they need to help and even save the patients they will ultimately treat.
This radical indoctrination is all the more troubling because a largely unknown and irresponsible organization has forced it on medical schools. Almost no American has ever heard of the LCME, which accredits more than 150 U.S. medical schools.
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In practice, the LCME sets standards that effectively determine what medical schools teach, so it pulls the strings on campuses across the country. Lo and behold, this puppeteer has made medical schools dance to the tune of DEI.
The LCME’s DEI mandate required that medical schools teach students to “recognize and appropriately address biases in themselves, others, and in the health care process.” This included a requirement to teach about “health care disparities and health inequalities.”
Although the phrase DEI never appears, the ideology is clearly visible. The mere mention of “bias” and “inequality” means that medical schools must produce political activists. That means doctors who believe in preferential treatment based on race – that is, racial discrimination – and advocate left-wing policies such as expanding prosperity and redistributing wealth.
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By forcing this radicalism on medical schools, the LCME has directly contributed to a decline in the quality of the medical workforce. Since 2020, the percentage of medical students passing the first part of the licensing exam has fallen every year except one, and clinical skills have also declined over the past decade. This crisis has a simple explanation: medical students are focused on DEI and are not becoming the best doctors. Yet that inevitably harms Americans’ health.
But now the tide can finally turn. By quietly dropping its DEI mandate, the LCME has freed medical schools to focus solely on real medical education. They no longer need to brainwash future doctors with lessons about “implicit bias” and “systemic racism.”
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But the question now is: will medical schools do the right thing?
Every minute medical students spend on these topics prevents them from learning real clinical skills and science – that is, the tools they need to help and even save the patients they will ultimately treat.
There are undoubtedly schools that still want to indoctrinate future physicians. They’ve been drinking the DEI Kool-Aid and are loath to give it up. Where that is the case, the Trump administration and state leaders should push for change, including by placing conditions on taxpayer funding. If a medical school teaches any ideology, it should not receive a dime from taxpayers.
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The Trump administration must also continue its efforts to this end make a new one accreditor of a medical school. While the LCME has done the right thing, there is nothing stopping it from changing course – for example, once President Trump is no longer in office. In the interest of America’s health, the government must ensure that there is another accreditor that holds medical education to the highest possible standards.
Every American is deeply affected by what is taught – and not taught – in medical schools. For too long, these vital institutions have been required to impose a divisive and discriminatory ideology on future physicians. Fortunately, that mandate has finally disappeared. Now medical schools can once again train the kind of world-class physicians every American deserves.
