Medical Schools Should ‘Combat Racism.’ But Not Like This.
Doctors and medical students at a ‘die-in’ demonstration at UCSF in 2014. (Photo by Lea Suzuki / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Radical and ill-defined ideas on race are undermining medical education, writes former Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey Flier.
In September 1968, I enrolled in the first entering class of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It was where I fell in love with medicine. My time at the school, and interactions with its remarkable faculty and classmates, enabled my professional journey as physician, scientist, educator, and eventually my nine years as dean of Harvard Medical School. …
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