An group of medical professionals has raised concerns that medical schools around the country are “skirting” the Supreme Court’s rule requiring admissions procedures to exclude race as a factor.
Do No Harm, a group of physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals “focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education,” released new research this week that found that, despite the high court’s decision in the landmark affirmative action case last summer, “many in the healthcare establishment nevertheless remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism and reject the virtue of race blindness.”
“Efforts to game admissions with an eye on enhancing racial diversity frequently occur under the moniker of ‘holistic admissions,'” notes the research headlined, “Skipping SCOTUS: How medical schools will continue.
