Medical School

A 2023 supreme court decision banned the use of affirmative action in college admissionsThe justice department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally considering race in admissions to its medical school – the second institution to face discrimination allegations by the federal agency this month.In a letter to a lawyer for Yale, Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said a justice department investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than white or Asian students, despite having lower grade-point averages and lower test scores. Continue reading...

School said its admission process is ‘based on merit’ and it is committed to complying with state and federal lawsThe US Department of Justice found on Wednesday that the medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles illegally considered race in admissions as the Trump administration ramps up scrutiny of colleges’ processes for selecting students.The finding escalates the Trump administration’s ongoing standoff with UCLA, which has focused mostly on the main campus’s response to allegations of antisemitic harassment. Continue reading...

• The leading U.S. medical school accreditation body, LCME, removed language from its 2027-2028 standards requiring schools to teach about health inequities and disparities. • The previous standards mandated instruction on "health care disparities" and "approaches to reduce health care inequities," which were replaced with language on self-directed learning skills. • The change comes as the Trump Department of Justice probes three medical schools, amid growing political pressure on diversity and equity initiatives in medical education.