CanMEDS 2025 affords us the opportunity to think critically and propose a vision of the practice of medicine which is rooted in social justice, antiracism, anti-oppression, and cultural safety, promoting a broader cultural shift which is necessary for the profession.
A new model of CanMEDS would seek to center values such as anti-oppression, antiracism, and social justice, rather than medical expertise.
This isn't a cultural shift here folks. This is war on any objective form of expertise, competence, or success, as well as a war on reality as it has always existed and how it has always been defined. This shift isn't just about introducing new concepts, but about these new concepts replacing and erasing the fundamental concepts that have defined everything since the beginning of time.
What should anyone want in a doctor? How about someone well trained with expertise in the subject of medicine that they practice? Perhaps some experience to boot? Ultimately we want to feel comfortable that the doctor will use their training, expertise, and experience to determine what is wrong with us and to come up with the best plan of treatment.
Unless I am crazy, don't we justs want our doctors to help patients get better? What does race, culture, oppression, or social justice have to do with whether or not you need chemo, radiation, or surgery for your cancer? The fact is that it literally has nothing to do with it. Not a single god damned thing. A doctor who doesn't have a handle on which treatment is best but is fully versed in anti-oppression really isn't much of a doctor at all and I am not going (or sending anyone) to that doctor for any diagnosis or treatments. Give me the expert. Every single time.
Keep in mind that everything about all of this is a zero sum game. You cannot focus medical training on politics without taking away that same focus on something else. They are not suggesting adding an additional year or medical training to incorporate these woke liberal political policies into medicine. They are literally telling you that incorporating their politics into medicine at the expense of actual medical training is part of the "cultural shift" that needs to take place. The fact that people simply cannot see the dangers of this is how far these concepts of putting social politics over everything else has warped the thinking and apparently made it impossible to see what should be obvious.
Ironically these same people are worried about Trump and the GOP pushing too hard on positions unpopular with the left. You know because if anything political is forced on them (rather than the other way around), it becomes facism. But isn't that the hypocrisy of politics 99 percent of the time?
So he says we need more social justice and she says we need more family values. Underneath it all is just two opinions. Neither is right and neither is wrong. Both would like to push these opinons onto the rest of the country because it would make them comfortable (and of course others uncomfortable). But perhaps the manner in which you want to live your life and the values you want to follow should be a personal choice and not mandated by the Government either way? If he want's to attend every pride festival and go cheer on the biological male beating up on biological girls in whatever sport, more power to him. If she want's to go to church every Wednesday and Sunday and send her kids to Sunday School to learn about religion, why should I care?
But instead we are reaching a crisis state where too many people apparently care how other people are living their lives and want to demand everyone follow their beliefs. They apparently want to push this into things like medicine because pushing their beliefs is more important than good medical practice.
Very well written and needed to be expressed. Thanks.