EXCLUSIVE: A professor at the University of Washington in Saint Louis The medical school was caught on camera warning students that if they try to debate her on critical race theory and “systemic oppression” she will “shut that shit down real quick.”
“I have a hard time being neutral on issues of systemic oppression,” Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier told a class of medical students last semester in a video obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. “So often you will know how I feel. This is not to say that I am opposed to hearing other perspectives. I would like to be very clear on this: I am always willing to engage in dialogue with people who may disagree with me. Always.”
“And I will not think less of you, nor will I try to fight you or debate you. And in fact, if you try to fight me or debate me, I’ll shut that down real quick,” added Reedy-Rogier, who has a master’s degree in social work.
Reedy-Rogier serves as co-director of the school’s “Team to Understand Systemic Racism,” according to the university website.
The lecture is part of the University of Washington’s “Health Equity and Justice” lessons, which is included in the medical school’s required “Gateway Curriculum” being implemented in 2020.
“At the University of Washington, we are advancing Human health as a diverse and inclusive community, inspiring students to create the future of medicine, science, and society. Our goal is to produce physicians who are leaders in medicine, science, education, and advocacy,” the medical school website states of the curriculum.
Before implementing the Gateway curriculum, the medical school promised in June 2020, as protests and riots broke out across the country following the death of George Floyd, that “require diversity and bias training for all search and admission processes, including student, resident, fellow, faculty, and education staff positions.”
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A Reedy-Rogier lecture summary, also obtained by Fox News Digital, shows a focus on “anti-racism,” including describing race as a “social construct,” and that being “anti-racist requires active learning.” and intentional. ”
“We are very adamant that race is a social construct, and that has implications for the way we practice medicine,” Reedy-Rogier said during the conference. “That has implications for how we understand the research, and that has implications for how we understand health disparities. So when we ask everyone to participate in this, we’re really asking them to think about their own identities and what that means to be anti-racist, which is an active stance in medicine that we know has a very bad problem with racism.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Washington University in St. Louis for comment on the class and Reedy-Rogier’s comments but did not hear back.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, director of the board of Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals who work to “protect health care from a radical, divisive and discriminatory ideology,” criticized Washington University Lecture as one who is “undermining” the legacy of the school.
“Washington University in St. Louis is one of the nation’s leading research institutions. Yet it is undermining that legacy with a racist approach to medical education,” Goldfarb told Fox News Digital.
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“These videos of professors teaching medical students that they must consider race as a primary factor in the practice of medicine is a corruption of health care,” Goldfard continued. “There is no valid evidence that disparities in healthcare are the result of the way doctors treat patients. Claiming that this is the case only precludes an effective approach to reducing disparities, such as improving access to care and better educating patients and the community about adherence to treatment plans and early recognition of signs and symptoms. symptoms of the disease.
A report published by a group that does mandatory tracking critical race theory curriculum on college campuses, CriticalRace.org, found earlier this year that 23 of the top 25 medical schools in the United States have some form of mandatory student CRT training.
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The study also found that 16 of the top 25 medical schools have declared that anti-racism, DEI, CRT, or other similar studies will be integrated into the university’s general curriculum.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.