Medical schools ‘wrap around’ SCOTUS ruling rejecting race in admissions: report

FIRST ON FOX: A new report by the non-profit organization Do No Harm (DNH) is sounding the alarm medical schools purportedly “strips” a 2023 Supreme Court ruling rejecting the use of race-based factors in admissions.

DNH says it “represents doctors, nurses, medical students, patients and policymakers” in an effort to keep “identity politics out of medical education, research and clinical practice.” The organization had previously published a report where they found that “many in the health establishment, however, remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism and reject the virtue of racial blindness” despite the high court’s ruling.

DNH claims that an earlier report also indicated that the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) “and several medical specialty societies and medical schools” “reprimanded” the decision of the Supreme Court shortly thereafter it was issued through means that included “veiled threats to circumvent the Court’s decision.”

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The newly released data, titled “Skirting SCOTUS: How Medical Schools Will Continue to Practice Racially Conscious Admissions,” used both MCAT data and available admissions data. DNH noted that because the AAMC does not release data at the school level, it is not “immediately clear” which medical schools are still implementing affirmative action and to what extent. The data also excludes public universities, which were already prohibited from participating in these practices.

“Among the thirteen schools that released clear racial/ethnic demographics for the class of 2027 and 2028, four experienced an increase in the proportion of black or Hispanic students,” the report states.

“Loyalty to SFFA is not only measured by year-over-year demographic changes, but is also a function of the degree to which affirmative action informed admissions policies prior to SFFA,” the report continues.

The report asserts that if the penalty assigned to “white and Asian applicants were modest,” demographic change would be reflected as such and vice versa.

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The study stated that “results at Quinnipiac, Maryland, Chicago, and Duke stand out as schools where admission policies are particularly worthy of scrutiny” given that the schools “admit black and Hispanic medical students at a rate that far exceeds their representation in the applicant pool (13% in 2024).”

“This fact, coupled with the reality that black and Hispanic medical school enrollees have significantly lower GPAs and MCAT scores than other enrollees, is a sign that schools continue to penalize or reward students based on race,” says the report .

“It’s pretty shocking and appalling how blatantly some of these medical schools are avoiding a Supreme Court ban on affirmative action,” Ian Kingsbury, DNH’s director of research, told Fox News Digital. “You can see that in the data, and then you can tie that data to the statements that the schools themselves are making, where they’re publicly challenging the Supreme Court and where they’re talking about the importance of diversity in their admissions process. .”

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“It is unclear whether the decision to stop publishing data after the SFFA is coincidental, a gesture to disguise inadequate implementation of the SFFA, or an effort to hide the statistical reality associated with adequate implementation,” the report continues. . “Given the AAMC’s pressure to continue to discriminate racially, along with the reality that many medical schools have been captured by far-left ideologues, these schools, as well as the dozens of others that did not release any data, do not they do so automatically. gain a presumption of innocence.”

“The kind of troubling reality is that, unfortunately, at this point, Students for Fair Admissions has not solved the problem of racial discrimination in higher education,” Kingsbury said. “And there’s more work to be done.”

The US Supreme Court rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions in a 6-3 decision in 2023.

The justices decided two separate legal challenges over how Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a public institution, decide who fills their classrooms.

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The student activist group Students for Fair Admissions filed cases against both universities. The group initially he sued Harvard in 2014 for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity receiving federal funds or other federal financial assistance.”

Fox News Digital reached out to AAMC, Quinnipiac University, University of Maryland, University of Chicago and Duke University for additional comment.

AAMC directed Fox News Digital to its most recent data release on medical school applicants and enrollment in 2024.

“We are encouraged by the increase in first-time applicants to medical school. The AAMC and its member medical schools are committed to continuing our efforts to increase the supply of physicians and increase the range of training and experiences in applicant and enrollee groups that are critical to the future physician workforce Evidence shows that a more diverse workforce can improve access to health care and the health of our communities”, David J. Skorton. MD, president and CEO of AAMC, said in the statement.