Medical Instructors May Soon Forfeit Tenure — Unless They Can Literally Prove Their Wokeness – Opinion

For those interested in medicine, you may like to know Indiana University has other concerns — at their medical school.

The college actually is so passionate about social justice that it would like to require adherence to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This would apply to anyone who wants tenure.

The Indiana University School of Medicine Faculty Affairs page contains a suggestion for DEI requirements.

A faculty member will be expected to make efforts toward DEI advancement in at least 1 mission area. They can do this by writing a personal statement that includes a DEI summary and listing DEI related activities on their CVs.

So — figuratively speaking — hopefuls will stand before those in charge and pray they aren’t determined obsolete:

This page explains more:

• Activities related to DEI would not need to be within the faculty member’s area of excellence.
• It is acceptable to satisfy this requirement by participating in professional development activities such as attending workshops.
• The expectation will be gradually implemented over three years, and faculty members will still have many years to fulfill the requirements.

Some examples of permissible activities are provided by the school in relation to provenance. Here are a few examples:

• Community-based outreach to historically excluded communities (e.g. programs for K-12 students or community organizations or religious institutions), workshops for high schools students that address LGBTQ+ awareness, resources, and programming
• Faculty development toward increasing one’s self-awareness and knowledge ,e.g., engaging in CME and/or professional development events, programs, modules, or workshops on DEI topics such as microaggressions, unconscious bias, upstander training; culturally relevant mentoring; inclusive teaching; DEI reading groups
• Research in the form publications, conference presentations or invited lectures. web) about research related to health and allied issues.
• Collaborative research projects with faculty from Minority Serving Institutions, (MSIs), or institutions which primarily serve historically marginalized population (also internationally).
• Research in the form publications, conference presentations or invited lectures. web) about research related to health and/or activities in particular populations such as those that are marginalized historically or address different therapeutic efficacy or health disparities or care delivery for marginalized populations.

So if you’re looking for extra work but without the complexity of additional pay, tenure could be yours.

According to the Academic Affairs site, during review, a DEI candidate “must present integrative evidence that amounts to excellence in value to the university. Integrative DEI cases will be reviewed holistically. This is a departure from making distinctions between teaching, research and service. Cases present a comprehensive argument for excellence across an integrated array of scholarly activities aligned with diversity, equity and inclusion.”

As hoops can be difficult to thread, medical experts will prevail over those who are acrobats.

Campus Reform has noted that Indiana recently revised its honor code in order to incorporate DEI as a core value.

And if you’d like a refresher on “marginalized communities,” the medical school offers an assist:

A population that has been marginalized or relegated in society to lower positions or less power through systemic disadvantages or exclusion from all levels of socio-economic, educational and/or cultural activities. There may be disparities for people from historically marginalized backgrounds in areas such as access to legal rights, employment and healthcare. Disparities could also exist in terms of accessing healthcare or receiving care that is not up to their standards. This term includes all people who are underrepresented in medicine, as well as those from other communities, such as women, LGBTQ+, individuals with differing cognitive or physical abilities, immigrants, low socioeconomic status and/or those with lower socioeconomic status.

It was once that medicine was only about medicine. School was more about education. But these days, you’re going to get schooled on wokeness. And if you resist, you’re not going to like your medicine.

-ALEX

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