A Washington University professor at St. Louis medical school was caught on camera warning students that if they try to debate her on critical race theory and “systemic oppression,” she will “shut down that shit.” very fast”.
“I have a hard time being neutral on issues of systemic oppression,” Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier told a class of medical students last semester in a video obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. “Many times you will know how I feel. This does not mean that I am opposed to hearing other perspectives. I would like to be very clear on this: I am always willing to engage in dialogue with people who may disagree with me. Always.”
“And I won’t think less of you, or try to fight you or debate you. And, in fact, if you try to fight me or debate me, I’ll shut that s— down real quick,” Reedy-Rogier, who has a master’s degree in social work, added.
Reedy-Rogier is a member of the school’s “Understanding Systemic Racism Team” as co-director, according to the university’s website.
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The lecture is part of the University of Washington’s “Health Equity and Justice” lessons, which is included in the medical school’s required “Gateway Curriculum” being implemented in 2020.
“At the University of Washington, we are promoting human health as a diverse and inclusive community, inspiring students to create the future of medicine, science and society. Our goal is to produce physicians who are leaders in medicine, science, education and advocacy,” the medical school’s website indicates the curriculum.
Before implementing the Gateway curriculum, the medical school promised in June 2020, when protests and riots broke out across the country following the death of George Floyd, that it would “require diversity and bias training for all search and admission, including those for students, residents, fellows, faculty, and staff positions in education”.
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A Reedy-Rogier lecture summary, also obtained by Fox News Digital, shows a focus on “anti-racism,” including describing race as a “social construct” and that being “anti-racist requires active learning and intentional”. “
Course highlights for medical students at Washington University in St. Louis.
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“We are very adamant that race is a social construct, and that has implications for the way we practice medicine,” Reedy-Rogier said during the conference. “That has implications for how we understand research, and that has implications for how we understand health disparity. So when we ask everyone to participate in this, we’re really asking you to think about your own identities and what that means to be anti-racist, which is an active stance in medicine that we know has a really serious racism problem.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Washington University in St. Louis for comment on the class and Reedy-Rogier’s comments but did not hear back.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, director of the board of Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals who work to “protect health care from a radical, divisive and discriminatory ideology,” criticized the University of Washington conference as one that ” undermines” the legacy of the school. .
One expert said the comments undermined the school’s legacy.
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“Washington University in St. Louis is one of the most prominent research institutions in the country. Yet it is undermining that legacy with a racist approach to medical education,” Goldfarb told Fox News Digital.
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“These videos of professors teaching medical students that they must consider race as a primary factor in the practice of medicine is a corruption of health care,” Goldfard continued. “There is no valid evidence that disparities in health care are the result of how doctors treat patients. To say that this is the case only prevents an effective approach to reducing disparities, such as improving access to health care and improve the quality of patients and the community. education about adherence to treatment plans and early recognition of disease signs and symptoms.
A report published earlier this year by a group that tracks the required critical race theory curriculum on college campuses, CriticalRace.org, found that 23 of the 25 most prestigious medical schools in the United States have some form of training. compulsory student at CRT.
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The study also found that 16 of the top 25 medical schools have declared that anti-racism, DEI, CRT, or other similar studies will be integrated into the university’s general curriculum.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
