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Accreditation guidelines call meritocracy 'malignant,' suggest genetic screening is racist
The two accrediting bodies for American medical schools now say that
meritocracy is "malignant" and that race has "no genetic or scientific
basis," positions that many doctors worry will lower standards of care
and endanger lives by discouraging vital genetic testing.
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits all
medical schools in North America, is cosponsored by the American Medical
Association (AMA) and the American Association for Medical Colleges
(AAMC)—the same groups that on Oct. 30 released a controversial guide to
"advancing health equity" through "language, narrative, and concepts."
Those concepts
include the ideas that "individualism and meritocracy" are "malignant
narratives" that "create harm," that using race as a proxy for genetics
"leads directly to racial health inequities," and that medical
vulnerability is the "result of socially created processes" rather than
biology.
Integrating these ideas into medicine, five professors and practicing doctors told the Washington Free Beacon, would be a catastrophe, resulting in underqualified doctors, missed diagnoses, and unscientific medical school curricula.
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