The University of Minnesota has put a CRT twist on the White Coat Ceremony for the medical students of 2026, making students pledge against “white supremacy,” “colonialism,” and promise to “honor all Indigenous ways of healing.”
A medical student’s White Coat Ceremony has historically been viewed as an important right of passage signifying one’s entrance into the medical profession, typically the students are given a white coat and the Hippocratic oath is recited.
However, the University of Minnesota Medical School had their class recite an altered version of this oath.
An excerpt from the oath starts off highlighting how the “institution is located on Dakota land.”
It then goes on to read, “We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the healthcare system. We recognize inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism and all forms of oppression”.
The oath then goes on to talk about promoting a culture of “anti-racism” and “listening” and pledges to “honor all Indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine”.
Christopher Rufo, who originally shared the new-aged oath, commented, “I’ve traveled in Africa, Asia, and LatinAm, and they aren’t clamoring for ‘indigenous ways of healing.’ They want antibiotics and CT machines.”
Sadly, this is not the only instance of medical education going woke. This comes after the recent firing of an esteemed NYU Professor Maitland Jones Jr., who was let go after 80 of his 350 students complained that his organic chemistry class was “too hard.”
According to the New York Times, his students complained because they feared that, “they were not given the grades that would allow them to get into medical school” — but instead of working harder to pass the class, they complained enough to get their professor fired.
Organic chemistry has been previously regarded as the litmus test for whether or not students would be able to make it through medical school, however, that no longer seems to be the standard.
Sadly, it seems that medical education has become more and more “woke” as medical students are no longer held to the traditional standards and schools put anti-white theory and “diversity and inclusion” over real medical practice.
