The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) moved to restrict and remove information from its website after a report revealed its full-throated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Last week, Do No Harm, an organization committed to de-politicizing medicine, published an exhaustive report detailing how the AAMC wielded its influence and prestige to push DEI and other leftist policies. The AAMC facilitates much of medical education in the United States and administers the MCAT, the test students take to get into medical school.
After the Do No Harm report dropped, the AAMC this week pulled information from its website on grants it had received, and restricted access to information about a database that tracked the race and sex of medical personnel.
Do No Harm Senior Director of Programs Laura Morgan, who authored the report on the AAMC, told The Daily Wire that it was strange for the organization to remove the information.
“Considering their laser focus on all things DEI, it’s curious that the AAMC would take down a web page that described the federal and private grants it receives, especially when it contains information on programs that are DEI-focused,” Morgan said.
“Based on the organization’s past actions and initiatives, the AAMC is proud of the work they do to promote divisive ideologies throughout medical education; so why not continue to let the public see how much money they are receiving from the federal government and private foundations?” she asked.
The grant information, which was archived and featured in Do No Harm’s report, shows that the AAMC has received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC was to provide $4,539,543 over four years to support “strategies to build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines among health care personnel and communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.” Other information on the partnership with the CDC can be found throughout the AAMC website.
A separate grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gave the AAMC $1 million annually to “support technical assistance and direction to help increase diversity in health fields.”
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The page also showed that the AAMC had a contract with the NIH over its “Faculty Roster,” which tracks the demographic information of faculty members at medical schools in the United States. The AAMC restricted a separate web page on the Faculty Website after the Do No Harm report. The current link to the page now says “Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.”
“The records contained in the FAMOUS [Faculty Administrative Management Online User System] platform track each individual faculty member’s history of appointments, rank, and tenure status,” Do No Harm noted in its report. “Institutions with the same login credentials can pull reports from the database that specifically include sex and race/ethnicity information.”
The AAMC did not return requests for comment on why the information on the grants was scrubbed or why it had restricted information on the faculty tracker.
Throughout its website, the AAMC makes clear its embrace of DEI ideology. It lists “diversity, inclusion, and equity in health care” as one of its four primary mission areas and says that DEI “in medical education and the physician workforce is critical for everyone’s health.”
Related: Major Medical Association Pushes For DEI ‘To Be Embedded In Everything’
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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) moved to restrict and remove information from its website after a report revealed its full-throated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Last week, Do No Harm, an organization committed to de-politicizing medicine, published an exhaustive report detailing how the AAMC wielded its influence and prestige to push DEI and other leftist policies. The AAMC facilitates much of medical education in the United States and administers the MCAT, the test students take to get into medical school.
After the Do No Harm report dropped, the AAMC this week pulled information from its website on grants it had received, and restricted access to information about a database that tracked the race and sex of medical personnel.
Do No Harm Senior Director of Programs Laura Morgan, who authored the report on the AAMC, told The Daily Wire that it was strange for the organization to remove the information.
“Considering their laser focus on all things DEI, it’s curious that the AAMC would take down a web page that described the federal and private grants it receives, especially when it contains information on programs that are DEI-focused,” Morgan said.
“Based on the organization’s past actions and initiatives, the AAMC is proud of the work they do to promote divisive ideologies throughout medical education; so why not continue to let the public see how much money they are receiving from the federal government and private foundations?” she asked.
The grant information, which was archived and featured in Do No Harm’s report, shows that the AAMC has received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC was to provide $4,539,543 over four years to support “strategies to build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines among health care personnel and communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.” Other information on the partnership with the CDC can be found throughout the AAMC website.
A separate grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gave the AAMC $1 million annually to “support technical assistance and direction to help increase diversity in health fields.”
CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
The page also showed that the AAMC had a contract with the NIH over its “Faculty Roster,” which tracks the demographic information of faculty members at medical schools in the United States. The AAMC restricted a separate web page on the Faculty Website after the Do No Harm report. The current link to the page now says “Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.”
“The records contained in the FAMOUS [Faculty Administrative Management Online User System] platform track each individual faculty member’s history of appointments, rank, and tenure status,” Do No Harm noted in its report. “Institutions with the same login credentials can pull reports from the database that specifically include sex and race/ethnicity information.”
The AAMC did not return requests for comment on why the information on the grants was scrubbed or why it had restricted information on the faculty tracker.
Throughout its website, the AAMC makes clear its embrace of DEI ideology. It lists “diversity, inclusion, and equity in health care” as one of its four primary mission areas and says that DEI “in medical education and the physician workforce is critical for everyone’s health.”
Related: Major Medical Association Pushes For DEI ‘To Be Embedded In Everything’
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