{"id":2255534,"date":"2024-05-30T05:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucla-medical-school-paid-first-year-students-to-write-left-wing-course-requirements\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T05:32:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:32:36","slug":"ucla-medical-school-paid-first-year-students-to-write-left-wing-course-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucla-medical-school-paid-first-year-students-to-write-left-wing-course-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Medical School incentivized first-year students to create progressive curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fucla-medical-school-paid-first-year-students-to-write-left-wing-course-requirements%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2255534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The University of California, Los Angeles \u200bmedical\u2062 school recruited first<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/low-risk-medical-school-students-are-being-forced-to-get-the-covid-booster\/\" title=\"Medical school students must receive the Covid booster, despite being at low risk.\">-year medical students<\/a> to develop curricula for mandatory &#8220;Structural Racism and \u200bHealth\u2064 Equity&#8221; courses. The school faced\u2064 criticism for integrating\u2063 left-wing\u2063 ideologies into medical \u2063education,\u2062 emphasizing critical race theory and anti-racist\u2062 perspectives. The curriculum review, \u200claunched amid public backlash, \u2062highlighted the controversial nature of \u200bthe\u2064 program.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2014<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/university-of-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>University of California<\/a>, Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>medical school<\/a> solicited first-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>medical students<\/a> for a paid position writing curriculums for courses in their \u201cStructural Racism and Health Equity\u201d mandatory classes.<\/p>\n<p>In documents obtained through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-commuting-his-sentence-ca-gov-newsom-reverses-parole-for-convicted-double-murderer\/\" title=\"After Commuting His Sentence, CA Gov. Newsom Reverses Parole For Convicted Double Murderer\">public records request<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/becerras-wife-sits-on-board-of-nonprofit-that-pushed-his-nomination\/\" title=\"Becerra\u2019s Wife Sits on Board of Nonprofit That Pushed His Nomination\">medical advocacy group<\/a> Do No Harm, the medical school was recruiting \u201ctutors\u201d to \u201ccreate new curricular content for our SRHE thread\u2014lectures, panels, discussion guides, cases, new electives\u2014as well as audit and analyze existing curricular content for other SRHE threads.\u201d SRHE is the school\u2019s name for its Structural Racism and Health Equity curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The recruiting letter was seeking first and second year medical students, as well as \u201cLeave of Absence\u201d students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecruiting students to this course to serve as mentors and as developers of curriculum is almost laughable. But in ways it reveals the true nature of these activities. One need not\u00a0know anything about medical care or how to treat sick patients in order to put together a course on structural racism in healthcare,\u201d Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told the Washington Examiner. \u201cFirst-year medical students are seen as appropriate mentors and curricular developers for this course. First-year medical students have never treated a patient and have no concept of the proper approach to patients and to understanding illness, yet they are proposed to be the faculty of this course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UCLA School of Medicine\u2019s plan to recruit students to be instructors as well as to develop curriculum in training other medical students is a terrible idea,\u201d Goldfarb continued. \u201cCurriculum should be developed by experts. Students that have been out protesting or engaged\u00a0in other such activities are not experts in anything and should not be developing curricula.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SRHE \u201ccurricular theme,\u201d which is currently under review by the school after public backlash, emphasizes critical race theory, queer theory, and \u201canti-racist\u201d lenses, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"diversity, equity, and inclusion\">diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a> ideology, to frame medical students\u2019 education around \u201cmedicine\u2019s reinforcement of health injustices, and how structural determinants of health such as race shape our present healthcare framework,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/srhe_course_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according<\/a> to a course guide on the SRHE requirement. The status of the review, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/ucla-med-school-launches-review-of-health-equity-course-but-warns-that-whistleblowers-could-be-disciplined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>launched<\/a> last month, is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The UCLA medical school has come under fire over the past several months as <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/pedagogical-malpractice-inside-ucla-medical-schools-mandatory-health-equity-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> of its SRHE mandatory course load have shown the school attempting to tie in far-left ideology to medical care, including anti-capitalist messaging, social justice activism, and anti-scientific claims attempting to normalize obesity. The scrutiny comes as DEI has come under the microscope and fallen out of favor among many who view the ideology as promoting race and gender characteristics as more important than merit and skill.<\/p>\n<p>In a June 2023 \u201ctutor\u201d recruiting document reviewed by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, the UCLA medical school was seeking applicants \u201cwith a prior demonstrated commitment to organizing for racial justice and intersectional equity issues at [the David Geffen School of Medicine] and in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also searching for applicants who are well-versed in identifying and addressing how structural racism and other forces of oppression manifest in medical education, clinical practice, and society, as well as their implications for community health and well-being,\u201d the UCLA medical school wrote in the document.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a \u201cfrequently asked question\u201d about why students should be interested in becoming a \u201ctutor,\u201d the recruitment document said it could be used as an \u201copportunity to take frustrations at missed opportunities and problematic sessions and transform them into action; form of health justice in a community that we are all stakeholders in and accountable to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The application required students interested in the $20-per-hour position to write essays displaying their commitment to the ideology behind the requirement, including answering what role race and racism has played in one\u2019s \u201clived experience and\/or career,\u201d as well as \u201chow and why social structures and systems of power come to render some communities more vulnerable to illness and premature death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students were also asked to provide a statement from a peer, faculty member, or community organization \u201coutlining your commitment to and track record of anti-racist work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe course in structural racism at UCLA consists of far-left ideologies utilizing critical race theory as its touchstone,\u201d Goldfarb said. \u201cThe concept that society should be divided into oppressed and oppressors can only lead to divisiveness and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-this-longevity-diet-and-will-it-really-make-you-live-longer\/\" title=\"What\u2019s This \u201cLongevity\u201d Diet, and Will It Really Make You Live Longer?\">worse health outcomes<\/a> as patients trust in the healthcare system is further eroded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One class session created by the SRHE team was \u201cTowards Queer Health Justice: Undoing Heteronormative Patriarchy in Medicine,\u201d which sought to \u201cemphasize the importance of learning from and standing in solidarity with Queer struggle, recognizing the connections between Queer liberation, feminism, bodily autonomy, and racial capitalism, and the fraught history that medicine has had and continues to have in oppressing non-normative bodies, gender [identities], and sexualities,\u201d according to a July 2023 email reviewed by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, which also wished first-year students a \u201chappy belated Pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The session brought in \u201cqueer activists\u201d from the Los Angeles area to talk about \u201cfighting for Queer health justice\u201d and was geared toward objectives to \u201crecognize past and present harms that medicine has inflicted on the Queer community (particularly BIPOC trans and intersex people), and consider practical ways of rectifying those harms (allyship)\u201d and \u201cdepathologize gender, sex, and sexuality in support of self-determination, understanding the beauty that variation adds to human experiences, communities, and society at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 session offering titled \u201cHistories of Resistance: Models of Care in Revolutionary Praxis\u201d featured Cleo Silvers, a former member of the Marxist militant black power organization the Black Panther Party and Puerto Rican street-gang-turned-activist-organization Young Lords Party, to speak about \u201cthese groups\u2019 radical reimagining of health and healthcare, and what we can all learn from their experiences and visions in our pursuit of equity and justice today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One proposed session, which, according to emails, appears to have been canceled in January without explanation, was a \u201cracial caucusing session\u201d that divided classes into three separate racial groups: white students, non-black people of color students, and black students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to emphasize that unlike most medical school pedagogies where scientific and clinical expertise is highly valued and hierarchical, racial caucusing works towards a more horizontal, dialogic approach,\u201d the document reviewed by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> stated.<\/p>\n<p>White students would have been told to \u201ccritically reflect on our own racial identity, recognizing that whiteness operates in part by obscuring this engagement\u201d and would have been encouraged to \u201cconsider the way white supremacy is foundational to and inseparable from other structures of oppression such as colonialism, racial capitalism, cisheteronormativity, and ableism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The white students would then need to turn their \u201cself reflection\u201d into \u201canti-racist actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nonblack people of color group would be afforded the opportunity to \u201cshare space away from the white gaze\u201d while \u201crecognizing that being a POC does not relinquish us from perpetuating anti-Blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the black student group would have focused on \u201cunity\u201d to combat the \u201crace-based societal structure.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost importantly, identify ways this collective space can provide opportunities for emotional rest, compassionate support, and healing affirmation of each of our personal experiences,\u201d the description of the proposed session said. \u201cCelebrating the resilience we all demonstrate working in these spaces and loving the beauty that is present in this space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UCLA medical school did not return a request for comment from the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UCLA medical school hired first-year students to develop curricula for mandatory &#8220;Structural Racism and Health Equity&#8221; courses. 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