American medical schools may still be participating in racial discrimination in their admissions even after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action is illegal, a recent report showed.
“The data we collected strongly suggests that medical schools continue to engage in racially discriminatory admissions, even after the Supreme Court ruled against that practice in 2023,” Do No Harm director of research and co-author of the report Ian Kingsbury told The Center Square.
Do No Harm is an organization of “physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice,” according to its website.
Kingsbury told The Center Square that putting an end to discrimination in medical education “requires some combination of litigation from rejected students, action from state governments or the federal government to close loopholes, and the establishment of new accrediting bodies.”
“Unfortunately, at present, medical schools are encouraged by their accreditor to discriminate,” Kingsbury said.
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