EXCLUSIVE — The University of California , Los Angeles medical school solicited first-year medical students for a paid position writing curriculums for courses in their "Structural Racism and Health Equity" mandatory classes. In documents obtained through a public records request from the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, the medical school was recruiting "tutors" to "create new curricular content for our SRHE thread—lectures, panels, discussion guides, cases, new electives—as well as audit and analyze existing curricular content for other SRHE threads." SRHE is the school's name for its Structural Racism and Health Equity curriculum.
The recruiting letter was seeking first and second year medical students, as well as "Leave of Absence" students. "Recruiting students to this course to serve as mentors and as developers of curriculum is almost laughable. But in ways it reveals the true nature of these activities.
One need not know anything about medical care or how to treat sick patients in order to put together a course on structural racism in healthcare," Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told the Washington Examiner. "First-year medical students are seen as appropriate mentors and curricular developers for this course.
First-year medical students have never treated a patient and have no concept of the proper approach to patients and to understanding illness, yet they are proposed to be the faculty of this course." "The UCLA School of Medicine’s plan to recru.
