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Ah, yes. More of hat DEI from medical schools.
Avoid DEI Doctors like the plague.
Avoid DEI Doctors like the plague.
The University of Illinois College of Medicine is promoting a web page that encourages professors to adopt “Equitable Assessments & Grading Practices.”
“Equitable assessments and grading practices emphasize the process of learning versus performance outcomes and the attainment of grades,” the page, linked on the college’s website emphasizes.
[RELATED: Harvard students call grading reform ‘racist’ in petition]
One of the listed benefits of grading according to equity is that the practice allows professors to “respect the diversity of students’ social identities as well as the diversity of student interests.”
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Do No Harm, a conservative watchdog organization that “seeks to highlight and counteract divisive trends in medicine,” criticized the College of Medicine for promoting ideology over science and merit in a post on Wednesday.
“Missing from these recommendations is any acknowledgement that medical students must regularly master difficult material that has its source in scientific reality,” the organization wrote. “Students’ ‘lived experiences’ are, in these instances, less important than what (or whether) they have actually learned.”
Commenting on the college’s decision to promote DEI initiatives more broadly, the organization states that “[T]hese errors in judgment matter. By introducing ideology into medical education, they blur what ought to be a tight focus on foundational science, clinical skills, and hands-on training.”
“This language should be familiar to anyone who has previously encountered critical educational theory, a Marxist framework obsessed with power dynamics and systemic oppression,” the post continues.
“Equitable assessments and grading practices emphasize the process of learning versus performance outcomes and the attainment of grades,” the page, linked on the college’s website emphasizes.
[RELATED: Harvard students call grading reform ‘racist’ in petition]
One of the listed benefits of grading according to equity is that the practice allows professors to “respect the diversity of students’ social identities as well as the diversity of student interests.”
...
Do No Harm, a conservative watchdog organization that “seeks to highlight and counteract divisive trends in medicine,” criticized the College of Medicine for promoting ideology over science and merit in a post on Wednesday.
“Missing from these recommendations is any acknowledgement that medical students must regularly master difficult material that has its source in scientific reality,” the organization wrote. “Students’ ‘lived experiences’ are, in these instances, less important than what (or whether) they have actually learned.”
Commenting on the college’s decision to promote DEI initiatives more broadly, the organization states that “[T]hese errors in judgment matter. By introducing ideology into medical education, they blur what ought to be a tight focus on foundational science, clinical skills, and hands-on training.”
“This language should be familiar to anyone who has previously encountered critical educational theory, a Marxist framework obsessed with power dynamics and systemic oppression,” the post continues.
