Thread 1/3: I was moved by Dr @uche_blackstock tweet: the refrain “being silenced” in academic medicine. Many exceptions, and it’s still a half-baked idea but some of us have expressed concerns about suppression of ideas in academic health centers, not where u think I’m going https://twitter.com/uche_blackstock/status/1320157802837495810

I don’t mean political correctness. I’m speaking about something different:The freedom and time to speak out about social justice, combat Antiscience, take on causes, without the constraints imposed on us by the money making machine that’s become the modern Academic Health Center

There’s a new weapon of oppression manifested as over credentialing masquerading as achievement, meaningless board exams, MOC, EHR electronic cash registers, ridiculous CME rules on what you can or can’t say. Designed by a machine of administrators to consume, distract, squash us

As a result, we’ve traded reading scientific papers and PubMed for UpToDate, intellectual inquiry in new areas or reading political philosophy for USMLE and board exams, speaking out in exchange for keeping our heads down. We’ve anti intellectualized medical education and GME