About a half-dozen organizations made up of medical students at Thomas Jefferson University are calling on the school to improve diversity efforts and publicly hold the president accountable., some from accounts described as far-right. The tweets were critical of diversity efforts on college campuses, questioned the science of COVID-19 vaccines, and called transgender surgery “child mutilation.” Tykocinski told The Inquirer he liked them in order to bookmark them for later learning.
Students from LGBTQ and underrepresented racial groups said his explanation was “difficult to comprehend.”“We believe this incident represents a broader issue concerning this institution’s lack of diversity and inclusion,” they wrote to Jefferson’s CEO Joseph Cacchione and the board of trustees in an
on Instagram. The students belong to several groups, including JeffLGBTQ and the Student National Medical Association, which supports current and future underrepresented minority medical students.Jefferson’s medical college placed last for diversity of all medical schools in the region, and 115th of 130 medical schools nationally, according to
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