The political interference in medical schools is similar to some of the political attacks on law schools. An article from Insider Higher Ed from yesterday questions whether “bowing to political pressure” will “hurt the future of public health, research and higher education.”

“I’m not aware of there ever being such a wholesale attack on medical schools,” said David Seres, retired director of medical nutrition and professor of medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center. “Funding from the government is often impacted by politics, and it’s not as if medical schools have always been immune. But [the Trump administration’s actions] are so out of proportion to any of that impact. This has been an overt, politicized attempt to reshape medicine by people who are not experts in medicine.”

Kathryn Palmer, ‘Vulnerable’ Medical Schools Caught in MAGA’s Crosshairs, Insider Higher Ed, May 4, 2026.