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prime reason, namely to better recruit and retain groups “underrepresented in medicine.” Today, medical educators don’t have much choice in the matter. Accrediting agencies can be very tough on educators who resist. Consider the case of the University of Utah School of Medicine. In a 2021 review, its accrediting organization, the Liaison Committee on Medical Edu- cation, spanked the school for its un- satisfactory efforts on the DEI front. Most notable was the medical school’s failure, since last spanked, to recruit any new women faculty in the “American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Haw- aiian/Pacific Islander” categories. (I hate the word “granular,” but damn, this is some granular stuff.) The school responded with, among other activities, an “Indigenous STEM Youth Outreach Program” as well as a gathering with the unwittingly iron- ic name, “Day of the Dead Premedical

Conference.” In addition, it held “diver- sity recruitment days,” offered scholar- ships to students from “underrep- resented populations,” mandated anti-

from would-be faculty. All of this costly hoop-jumping made little impression on the accredit ors. They begrudged the school with a rating of “satisfactory with a need for mentoring” and gave the school a year to come up with a more groveling pro gress report. So here’s where we are today. Those who think meritocracy in medicine a malignant myth can be as loud as they want with their protests. Those who think otherwise—most readers, I sus pect—are well-advised to keep their mouths shut. As Dr. Goldfarb can attest, being a non-person is not much fun.

Those who think meri tocracy in medicine a malignant myth can be as loud as they want with their protests. The rest of us are well advised to keep quiet.

bias training for its admissions staff, switched to a “holistic” admis- sions process that gave great weight to a student’s “cultural awareness” essay, and demanded a “diversity statement”

The views expressed in this column, which is also published online in the Heartlander, are the writer’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Ingram’s Magazine. Jack Cashill , Senior Editor, Editorial @ Ingrams.com

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