MN Medical Students Swear Oath to 'Honor All Indigenous Ways of Healing'
Medical students at the University of Minnesota pledged to "honor all indigenous ways of healing historically marginalized by Western medicine."
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Medical students at the University of Minnesota pledged to “honor all indigenous ways of healing historically marginalized by Western medicine” and fight “white supremacy, colonialism, gender binary, ableism and all forms of oppression.”
The move has many questioning whether the university is embracing shamanism as equally legitimate to Western science.
In a video from the white coat ceremony, which was led by associate dean for undergraduate education Dr. Robert Englander, students are seen reciting a pledge that has them “commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system.”
“The most incredible thing about this clip is that the doctor almost certainly doesn’t believe in what he’s saying,” anti-critical race theory activist Christopher Rufo wrote. “But he submits anyway—because the institutional powers now require otherwise intelligent people to falsify their own beliefs and repeat the left-wing copypasta.”The most incredible thing about this clip is that the doctor almost certainly doesn't believe in what he's saying. But he submits anyway—because the institutional powers now require otherwise intelligent people to falsify their own beliefs and repeat the left-wing copypasta. https://t.co/LnbGAdsNWU
— Christopher F. Rufo(@realchrisrufo) October 12, 2022
As part of their oath, students also partook in a “land acknowledgement” in which they said the land upon which the university sits used to belong to the Dakota American Indians.
“This acknowledgement is not enough,” however, because the students must also “recognize inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism and all forms of oppression.”
“It is a common practice at medical schools in the United States to build upon the intent of the Hippocratic Oath to promote humility, integrity, and beneficence,” University media relations manager Kat Dodge told Campus Reform. “Each year at the University of Minnesota Medical School, the incoming students work with faculty to write an oath that reflects these core elements, values, and ethics the class aspires to uphold.”
The full pledge reads as the following:
“The University of Minnesota School of Medicine and Dean Robert Englander have performed a real service for the public by presenting their new version of the Hippocratic oath,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chair of medical watchdog Do No Harm, told Breitbart News. “No longer will the current rage to inculcate critical race theory into medical education be contained in lecture halls at America’s medical schools. It is now there for all to see.” He went on to say:
“Most disturbing of all was the call to ‘honor all indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine,’ Goldfarb concluded. “Surely Dean Englander cannot mean that we should embrace Shamanism. Or does he?”
