Watchdog group rips Ohio State medical school for expansive DEI initiatives in new report

Watchdog group rips Ohio State medical school for expansive DEI initiatives in new report

The Ohio State University College of Medicine has engaged in extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, including suggesting that all students are biased, according to a new report from a medical watchdog organization.

The report from Do No Harm, a nonprofit group of doctors and medical professionals that opposes the politicization of medicine, details a number of ways that the medical school at Ohio’s flagship university has incorporated such concepts as “anti-racism” and “health equity.”

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“Enrolled students are strongly encouraged to view medicine through the lens of the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda,” the report says of the medical school. “When the college makes its strategic plans, it leans on health equity and social justice, with an eye toward creating not only health professionals, but agents of social change.”


The report compiles information from the Ohio State medical school website detailing the school’s efforts to advance DEI, anti-racism, and social justice initiatives. The DEI initiatives touch on numerous departments, including admissions, academics, and personnel.

“We celebrate and learn from our diversity,” the school says on its website. “We see diversity as the uniqueness each of us brings to achieving our shared mission and goals. We recognize and value different perspectives, characteristics, experiences and attributes of each individual in creating an environment where we thrive on and benefit from our differences.”

The school’s website goes on to list several ways that “diversity” purportedly benefits the school and the medical profession. One listed benefit is that “Attaining a critical mass of students underrepresented in medicine and biomedical sciences avoids the negative effects of isolation.”

The report says the medical school implements several unconscious bias trainings, including in the admissions process, where school officials receive training on “the unconscious bias that impacts admission and training of students.” According to the report, the school says students “are naturally biased.”

The report comes weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the use of affirmative action, or racially conscious admissions, was an illegal form of racial discrimination. The ruling, which overturned previous court precedent, prohibits universities from using race as a determinative factor when admitting a student to the school.

Laura Morgan, the author of the report and a program manager at Do No Harm, told the Washington Examiner the report “raises critical questions about the school’s fixation on the divisive concept of anti-racism and its impact on the integrity of future physicians.”

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“By presenting information to medical students based on an ideology that calls for ongoing discrimination, the OSU College of Medicine risks compromising the quality of medical education and, ultimately, patient care,” Morgan said. “Considering the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action, OSUCOM and other leading institutions must closely examine their priorities in making their admissions processes align with meritocracy and equality, not radical identity politics like anti-racism.”

Ohio State University did not respond to a request for comment.

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