Yuri Bezmenov:

The Dean of DEI at Brown’s medical school has just been promoted to VP of Campus Life:

Patricia Poitevien MD, MSc, FAAP is the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. Dr. Poitevien’s research focuses on inclusion and mentorship of underrepresented learners in academic medicine, bias in assessment and the impact of racism on medical education. She was a founding member of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) Learning Community on Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine a (UIM) and is currently the Immediate Past-President of the APPD. She has lectured nationally on disparities in medical education and in healthcare and has led numerous workshops on building diverse and inclusive environments within academic medicine. She has published on professional identity formation and belonging for underrepresented in medicine (UIM) learners, using a competency based medical education framework to advance anti-racist medical education and utilizing simulation in faculty development to address bias in the clinical learning environment. Her interests include recruitment and mentorship of UIM trainees and faculty, competency based medical education and professional identity formation for UIM learners.

Anti-racist medical education sounds fun and definitely won’t get patients killed. Although she graduated medical school in 1998, she didn’t receive a medical license until 2018. Reminder that if you step onto her campus, half of the students would find it justified to kill you for disagreeing with them.