Medical schools ditch DEI — a real doctor will see you now

“What do you call a medical student who graduated last in his class? A doctor.”

It’s funny because it’s true. And slightly uncomfortable.

When you’re sitting across from a physician and their diploma is on the wall behind them, you don’t see a class rank or an admissions file. You have no way of knowing the path they took, just that they share the same credentials as everyone else from their graduating class. You want to believe that their path to medical school and through it was as rigorous as possible, because the alternative is terrifying when you or a family member is on the exam table.

That is why what just happened in medical education is more than a bureaucratic tweak — it is a signal that the system is being forced back toward its intended purpose.

Within days of the Justice Department Office for Civil Rights opening a new