Open Date: September 2025
Closed Date: 9/15/25
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule that would stop accreditors from requiring medical residency and fellowship programs to adopt “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs as a condition of accreditation and federal funds. On September 15, 2025, Defending Education (DE) and Do No Harm, a group of more than 30,000 physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers, filed a joint comment supporting the rule. The comment argues that medicine should be guided by scientific evidence rather than ideology, and that opportunities should go to people based on merit rather than race or sex.
Read DE’s joint comment with Do No Harm below:
