We are pulling the plug on med school DEI and making us all healthier as a result

Americans just won what may very well be their biggest victory against DEI. But nobody knows it. 

As of March 19, America’s medical schools are finally free to ditch this discriminatory and dangerous ideology. The organization that oversees them — the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) — silently dropped its mandate that medical schools indoctrinate future physicians. This matters because DEI has dramatically worsened medical education, putting every American’s health at risk. Now medical schools can finally do what they’re supposed to do — train the best doctors who provide the best care.

The significance of this victory is hard to overstate, given the stakes for Americans’ health. The unfortunate truth is that DEI has thoroughly corrupted medical education. I’ve documented this phenomenon going back nearly a decade, showing how future physicians have been forced to learn about systemic racism, implicit bias and a slew of social issues that doctors can’t fix. Every minute that medical students spend on these topics prevents them from learning real clinical skills and science — i.e., the tools they need to help and even save the patients they’ll eventually treat.

This radical indoctrination is all the more concerning because a largely unknown and unaccountable organization has forced it on medical schools. Hardly any American has ever heard about the LCME, which accredits 150-plus U.S. medical schools.

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Practically, the LCME issues standards that effectively dictate what medical schools teach, so it pulls the strings at campuses across the country. Lo and behold, this puppet master 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, in others, and in the health care delivery process." This included a requirement to teach about "health care disparities and health inequities."  

While the phrase DEI never makes an appearance, the ideology is readily apparent. The mere mention of "biases" and "inequities" means that medical schools must churn out political activists. That means physicians who believe in preferential treatment based on race — i.e., racial discrimination — and advocate for leftist policies like welfare expansion and wealth redistribution.

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By forcing this radicalism on medical schools, the LCME has directly contributed to a decline in quality of the medical workforce. Since 2020, the percentage of medical students who pass the first part of the licensure exam has fallen every year except one, and clinical skills have also declined for at least a decade. This crisis has a simple explanation: Medical students are focused on DEI, not becoming the best doctors. Yet that inevitably hurts Americans’ health.

But now the tide can finally turn. By quietly dropping its DEI mandate, the LCME has freed medical schools to focus completely on real medical education. They are no longer required to brainwash future physicians with classes on "implicit bias" and "systemic racism."

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But the question now is: Will medical schools do the right thing?

Without a doubt, some schools still want to indoctrinate future physicians. They’ve drunk the DEI Kool-Aid and will be loath to give it up. Where that’s 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 whatsoever, it shouldn’t get a cent of taxpayer funding.

The Trump administration should also continue its efforts to create a new medical school accreditor. While the LCME has done the right thing, there’s nothing to stop it from reversing course — say, the moment President Trump is out of office. For the sake of Americans’ health, the administration should ensure there’s another accreditor that holds medical schools to the highest possible standards.

Every American is profoundly affected by what’s taught — and not taught — at medical schools. For too long, these vital institutions have been required to force-feed divisive and discriminatory ideology to future physicians. Thankfully, that mandate is finally gone. Now medical schools can get back to training the kind of world-class doctors every American deserves.