UCLA’s medical school ended an exercise that segregated students after a civil rights complaint was filed.
UCLA required first-year students to take a class called “Structural Racism and Health Equity,” where students were split up by race in one exercise.
Students were directed to discuss “antiracist” prompts in a “White student caucus group,” the “Non-Black People of Color (NBPOC) student caucus group” or the “Black student caucus group.”
“[R]ecognizing the imperfect and problematic nature of our socially constructed racial categories, we ask that you identify the group in which you feel you are most perceived as in clinical spaces,” reads a letter obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
Following news of UCLA’s exercise, the nonprofit group Do No Harm filed a complaint against the school.
The organization said the racial groups “illegally segregate and separate its first year medical students based on their race, color and/or national origin.”
Board Chair of Do No Harm Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told Fox News Digital, “That UCLA encouraged racial segregation in its medical school class is an absolutely outrageous abandonment of nearly 65 year old national commitment to eliminate racism in society. All medical students should be working together to learn to provide optimal medical care to all patients rather than to perpetuate, absurd, racist notions.”
