First-year medical students are required to learn that weight has little to do with health, according to a new report.
The Washington Free Beacon obtained a syllabus from the “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The document includes required reading lists to prepare for classes regarding topics like “The Sickness of Policing & Incarceration,” “Anti-Settler Colonialism/Indigenous Health” and “Environmental Racism & Justice.”
Among the materials for the “Disability Justice” session include an article by Marquisele Mercedes, titled “No Health, No Care: The Big Fat Loophole in the Hippocratic Oath,” which says “fatphobia is medicine’s status quo.”
“It is proven that weight loss is a useless, hopeless endeavor. You are unlikely to lose weight in any permanent way and highly likely to open yourself to the myriad risks associated with weight cycling. The relationship between weight and health is also muddy,” the essay reads.
“It is proven that weight loss is a useless, hopeless endeavor. You are unlikely to lose weight in any permanent way and highly likely to open yourself to the myriad risks associated with weight cycling. The relationship between weight and health is also muddy,” the essay reads.
Fox News Digital reached out to The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA for a comment but has yet to receive a response.
UCLA’s medical school has come under fire in the last few months over its “Health Equity” class for its assignments and controversial events.
Earlier this month, the UCLA Jewish Faculty Resilience Group spoke to several witnesses who testified that an invited lecturer “instructed students to touch the floor, ‘mama earth with a fist’ while she made a ‘non-secular’ prayer to ‘mama earth’ and our ‘ancestors.'”
The speaker also allegedly “instructed students to get out of their seats and stand upright with her for a closing prayer, once again to ‘mama earth’ and the ‘ancestors.’ Of those gathered, a handful of students who were visibly uncomfortable declined to participate, remaining seated throughout.”
In January, the school was forced to cancel a class exercise that divided students into racial groups following a civil rights complaint.
“[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,” the exercise reportedly said.
The “Structural Racism and Health Equity” class was established in 2020 as part of the school’s “anti-racist” curriculum shift in the wake of George Floyd’s death.