Loading ...‘Pedagogical Malpractice’: Inside UCLA Medical School’s Mandatory ‘Health Equity’ Class
Top physicians, including former Harvard dean, say required course is riddled with dangerous falsehoods
The curriculum is a “compilation of ideologic and anecdotal assertions that represent a warped view of medicine,” said Stanley Goldfarb, the founder of the medical advocacy group Do No Harm and the father of Free Beacon chairman Michael Goldfarb. “American medical education needs to purge itself of this nonsense and treat every patient as an individual.”
The slides suggest that “lived experiences,” “historical memory,” and “other knowledges” can constitute medical expertise.
Biomedical knowledge, after all, is “just one way of knowing, understanding, and experiencing health in the world.”