Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Weill Cornell instills social justice, health equity in medical education. Really!

Another ivy league University engaged in propaganda and demagoguery subjecting their students "longitudinally" to ideological indoctrination!

As a student I would ask for a refund of my tuition and study elsewhere!

"... Convened in summer 2020 by Dr. Yoon Kang, senior associate dean for education, the Anti-Racism Curriculum Committee was charged with reinvigorating Weill Cornell Medical College’s curriculum to ensure that medical students gained a firm understanding of how social, economic and policy factors influence health outcomes. ...
“We need to impress upon the next generation of health care workers the power that societal factors have on population health, as well as an individual’s health, so that they can become well-rounded, comprehensive physicians,” said Howell, who is also assistant dean for diversity and student life at Weill Cornell Medicine. ...
Comprising Weill Cornell Medicine administrators, faculty, students and staff, the Anti-Racism Curriculum Committee met throughout 2020-21 and quickly identified the need to encapsulate social justice and health equity in a new medical college foundational learning objective.
The goal, said committee co-chair Dr. Joseph Safdieh, was to develop a framework in which social determinants of health, including racism, are taught longitudinally, across all four years of medical school, rather than in a single course. ..."

Weill Cornell instills social justice, health equity in medical education | Cornell Chronicle

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