(religious) Hospitals' residency programs must abide by Title IX

[Heddi]

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170309/NEWS/170309885

Hospital residency programs can be sued under Title IX if they fail to protect residents from gender discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled this week.

In a unanimous decision, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Title IX applies to medical residents, reversing a lower court decision that the residency programs aren't educational programs through "schooling."

Instead, the three-judge panel said Title IX applies to institutions that broadly offer education even if that isn't their sole purpose.

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In the case at hand, a former resident sued Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Philadelphia in 2015 under Title IX, claiming she was forced out of the program for denying unwanted sexual advances from a superior.

Mercy Catholic argued it had no obligation to abide by Title IX provisions because it's not an educational institution even though it receives federal funding for its residency program. The hospital claimed a residency program could not be considered an educational program because residents receive compensation and don't pay tuition.

he 3rd Circuit disagreed with Mercy's interpretation, saying medical residency programs do indeed provide education. Residency programs are often affiliated with a university and result in further certification for physicians, so the programs are educational, according to the judges.

[trotsky]

1. "it receives federal funding for its residency program"

They are welcome to refuse to accept taxpayer dollars if they don't want to be bound by serving the public good. I mean, if bigotry is more important to them, so be it.