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Critical theory is infecting everything. I’ve seen threads covering the impact on education (k-12 and university), the military, and the federal government. This thread is going to highlight the impact on medicine and the medical field.
On September 15, 2019 the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) posted the results of a poll showing that 68.9% of respondents disagree with the following statement: “Medical school should produce physician scientists, not physician social justice activists”.
It is important to stop here and look at social justice in terms of critical theory in order to better understand social justice activists. http://NewDiscourses.com has the following notes on social justice:
As far back as 2012 there was a push to create social justice activists in medicine. There were “efforts to encourage medical students go beyond cultural competence and become fluent in the critical consciousness" 2012 Apr; 71(4 Suppl 1): 64–67" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3347740/
The key phrasing in the journal article is “become fluent in the critical consciousness”. More information on critical consciousness from http://NewDiscourses.com :
How have those in the medical field done with adopting a critical consciousness? Here is the first example - a February 2019 article in the NEJM by Dr. Deborah Cohan: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1814269
This 2019 article discusses “woke” medical schools: https://www.wsj.com/articles/take-two-aspirin-and-call-me-by-my-pronouns-11568325291?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/jhW7gM1M72
Here is on doctor -Dr. Marya- discussing heart disease and advocating for decolonization:
More from Dr. Marya , this time discussing diabetes
In this piece Dr. Marya discusses the justice study. Link here: https://bioneers.org/decolonizing-healthcare-addressing-social-stressors-in-medicine-ztvz1812/
As doctor Marya did in the example above, here are the Woke Doctors promoting decolonizing medicine:
More from Woke Doctors:
Other examples from the medical field:
Still more examples:
Even more examples of the impact of critical theory on the medical field:
Adopting critical theory is also causing uproars about journal articles in the medical field. In this thread Wokal Distance explained what activists in the medical field did to Dr. Wang: https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1291678348649717762?s=20
The fact that medical field has gone woke has lead to activism over health; even during a pandemic: https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1293793387317878784?s=20
Wokal mentioned that "racism is a health issue" allows for hijacking the resources, credibility, and mission of the medical community in the service of the woke political agenda. Here The Dunedain Ranger did a thread on the ARPHA bill: https://twitter.com/DunedainRanger9/status/1303692666891374592?s=20
The fact that the medical field has actively adopted critical theory and a critical consciousness is very alarming.
Thank you to @ConceptualJames, @HPluckrose, @MikeNayna, @peterboghossian, @wokal_distance, @BenjaminABoyce and @realchrisrufo for your work explaining and calling out critical theory!
See also: CA - https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200110.360375/full/https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1307341561475346442?s=20
"If young teenagers can embrace activism and say #Enough by engaging in the political conversation, certainly physicians can too" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-time-for-more-physicians-to-embrace-advocacy/
"Medical schools are also trying to “move the needle” on social justice. YSM offers a “U.S. Health Justice” elective. First-year medical students are required to take a course -“Making the Invisible Visible: Art, Identity & Hierarchies of Power....” https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/12/how-medical-schools-are-polarizing-tomorrows-doctors/
The Institute for Antiracism in Medicine’s inaugural FREE CME course: “How to Be a Healthcare Antiracist”
Decolonize Nursing!
Adding in this thread: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1311819131377811456?s=20
Trans activism and the medical field: https://twitter.com/MLaidlawMD/status/1319300638119841794?s=20
Also see this piece by Helena Kerschner https://newdiscourses.com/2020/08/trans-healthcare-manipulated-data-self-appointed-saviors/
The wrote a new Hippocratic oath to "addresses events that are still unfolding". They probably should've stuck with the original. https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1324157111471951873?s=20
The Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine and The Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine & Health Justice thread: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1317203086348341253?s=20
"How knowledge of medicine was obtained (White Western “objective” science) is problematic because it brings about inequities and injustices" https://twitter.com/DunedainRanger9/status/1326576643931037697?s=20
Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the official accrediting body for medical schools in the United States and Canada potentially developing and implementing anti-racism curriculum standards: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1326765402114887683?s=20
Adding in a thread on UABSOM: https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1328387354428583942?s=20
November 2020-AMA passes anti-racism policies: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1328506624013717506?s=20
Another example of wokeness in medical school: https://twitter.com/Darkhorseduo1/status/1338273690803441669?s=20
Jan. 22, 2021 - A Policy Statement of the Society of General Internal Medicine: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1356638171921076227?s=20
Issue Brief from the American College of Nurse-Midwives Gender and Equity Taskforce Approved: Board of Directors December 2017: http://www.midwife.org/acnm/files/ACNMLibraryData/UPLOADFILENAME/000000000313/Issue-Brief-Use-of-Culturally-Appropriate-Terminology-for-Gender-Diverse-Populations-FEB-2018.pdf
In December 2014, the Midwives Alliance Core Competencies were revised using gender inclusive language in order to better reflect the diversity of midwives and the clients they serve: https://mana.org/healthcare-policy/use-of-inclusive-language
Here is the 'Response to the "Open Letter to MANA" from "Woman-Centered Midwifery"' (It has/had received over 1500 signatures): http://www.birthforeverybody.org/response-to-open-letter/
Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and PolicyPolicy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future: https://clinicalproblemsolving.com/2021/01/19/episode-155-antiracism-in-medicine-series-episode-5-racism-power-and-policy/
Decolonizing nursing history-Florence Nightingale: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1357408951604756485?s=20
The NIH, DEI, and structural racism: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1365468616221671425?s=20
National Institutes of Health "Ending Structural Racism": https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1368757000528609287?s=20
Social Justice in action: https://twitter.com/BrentAWilliams2/status/1368214989580951552?s=20
White Coats, anti-racism, and prison abolition: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1320095063830048769?s=20
Doctor activists and JAMA: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1368735489155596291?s=20
2019: "To us, such activism is unsurprising. In our recently published study of medical students across the country, we report that nearly 9 out of 10 future doctors consider advocacy an inextricable part of their professional duties" https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2019/03/for-future-physician-activists-this-is-our-lane.html#:~:text=To%20us%2C%20such%20activism%20is,part%20of%20their%20professional%20duties
AAMC and anti-racism: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1371685374817402883?s=20
University of Minnesota School of Public Health launches the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1371907437687619585?s=20
"An emancipation from the dominant frame of whiteness is vital to efforts to eliminate health inequities and to become better health services researchers" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13558?campaign=woletoc#.X287YHGGDoQ.twitter
'The public health critical race methodology: Praxis for antiracism research' - Social Science & Medicine Volume 71, Issue 8, October 2010, Pages 1390-1398.
An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine:
"Offering preferential care based on race or ethnicity may elicit legal challenges from our system of colorblind law. But...we believe...that our approach is corrective and therefore mandated." https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1375796088893014017?s=20
"Offering preferential care based on race or ethnicity may elicit legal challenges from our system of colorblind law. But...we believe...that our approach is corrective and therefore mandated." https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1375796088893014017?s=20
Harvard Medical School PGSSC Anti-Racism Statement:
"Racism is inherent to every aspect of our lives; it is woven into the fabric of society"...
"Therefore, the absence of conspicuous racist actions is not enough. We must be actively anti-racist. https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1376260983103049729?s=20
"Racism is inherent to every aspect of our lives; it is woven into the fabric of society"...
"Therefore, the absence of conspicuous racist actions is not enough. We must be actively anti-racist. https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1376260983103049729?s=20
"In Australia,despite medical schools being mandated to teach Indigenous health, an anti‐racism approach is not specified, raising questions as to curriculum accreditation standards"
"Stronger anti‐racist pedagogy is urgently required in med. education" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14344
"Stronger anti‐racist pedagogy is urgently required in med. education" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/medu.14344
"Although tools for embedding antiracism training into medical programs exist, much work remains for Canadian institutions to firmly embed antiracism into medical education." https://www.cmaj.ca/content/193/3/E101
AAMC 2021 Virtual GEA Joint Regional Conference-Innovations in Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion Across the Medical Education Spectrum https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1377314535711895560?s=20
Professionalism, anti-racism, and equity in medicine: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1377328504489046024?s=20
Podcasting: A Medium for Amplifying Racial Justice Discourse, Reflection, and Representation Within Graduate Medical Education
Journal of Graduate Medical Education Feb., 2021
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/13/1/29/451598/Podcasting-A-Medium-for-Amplifying-Racial-Justice
Journal of Graduate Medical Education Feb., 2021
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/13/1/29/451598/Podcasting-A-Medium-for-Amplifying-Racial-Justice
UMichigan Surgery: "Using Critical Race Approaches in Endometrial Cancer Equity Research"
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Pitt General Internal Medicine: "Anti-Racism in Medicine" podcast series promotion
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Pitt General Internal Medicine: "Anti-Racism in Medicine" podcast series promotion
Examining racism in health services research: A disciplinary self‐critique
"We as health services researchers must emancipate ourselves from the dominant white supremacist framing that has touched every aspect of our science...."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13558?campaign=woletoc#.X3dsky5_UCl.twitter
"We as health services researchers must emancipate ourselves from the dominant white supremacist framing that has touched every aspect of our science...."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13558?campaign=woletoc#.X3dsky5_UCl.twitter
Race, Racism, and the Policy of 21st Century Medicine: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1379862443317456900?s=20
CDC launches new page: Health Equity, Racism and Health https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1380278972005675009?s=20
National Network of Public Health Institutes Funding Opportunity: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1382462388662833152?s=20
SB Healthcare Workers for Racial Justice event: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1384291808432115720?s=20
Preventive Medicine 2021
Sessions include 'social justice, health equity, and many more' https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1384294940776165377?s=20
Sessions include 'social justice, health equity, and many more' https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1384294940776165377?s=20
The 'Diversity and Inclusion Focus Issue of AUA News': https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1384948357496459269?s=20
2021 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
Highlights from Thursday's Plenary Session- Realizing True Health Equity- An Equal Opportunity To Be Healthy For All: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1385319952807251969?s=20
Highlights from Thursday's Plenary Session- Realizing True Health Equity- An Equal Opportunity To Be Healthy For All: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1385319952807251969?s=20
Health equity in focus: introducing the Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1386039859333193733?s=20
Nurse-led national commission examines racism in nursing https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1386041816789757952?s=20
'No longer a Fellow- why I am leaving the American College of Surgeons' by @rtbosshardt
Thread includes a link to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Task Force on Racial Issues and implementation of CRT: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1386457916434264065?s=20
Thread includes a link to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Task Force on Racial Issues and implementation of CRT: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1386457916434264065?s=20
Stanford Surgery - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the J.E.D.I Council (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1387025759882158080?s=20
Woke doctor(s) on leveling the playing field and abolishing the meritocracy myth: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1387056388589903872?s=20
My whole pinned thread is about wokeness taking over medicine; most of the information comes from journals and websites.
Here is a thread that contains first hand accounts from multiple medical students: https://twitter.com/BrentAWilliams2/status/1387391438418231301?s=20
Here is a thread that contains first hand accounts from multiple medical students: https://twitter.com/BrentAWilliams2/status/1387391438418231301?s=20
Plenary -Whiteness in medical education: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1388217503743189000?s=20
Center for Primary Care report: Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic
"the important role of primary care in advancing anti-racist policies for the future" https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1388168212232249347?s=20
"the important role of primary care in advancing anti-racist policies for the future" https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1388168212232249347?s=20
AACN Essentials outline the necessary curriculum content and expected competencies of graduates from baccalaureate, master’s, and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. The 2021 edition now includes DEI: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1390154546790469632?s=20
2021 SHM Converge: https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1390750443077357575?s=20
PLOS Medicine piece:
"The pandemic continues to enable those with money and power to expand their influence making decoloniality, solidarity, and distribution of power, knowledge, and resources even more urgent"
"build a more just and equitable world" https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1390796973603794948?s=20
"The pandemic continues to enable those with money and power to expand their influence making decoloniality, solidarity, and distribution of power, knowledge, and resources even more urgent"
"build a more just and equitable world" https://twitter.com/AmandaLuvsRoses/status/1390796973603794948?s=20
